Valentine Green, 1788

Not on View

Medium

mezzotint on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 47.7 x 57.8 cm (18 3/4 x 22 3/4 in.)

sheet: 48.2 x 38.2 cm (19 x 15 1/16 in.)

Credit Line

Paul Mellon Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

Chaloner Smith 1884, no. 57, State ii/ii

Accession Number

2001.118.10

Artists / Makers

Valentine Green (artist) British, 1739 - 1813

Lemuel Francis Abbott (artist after) British, c. 1755/1761 - 1802

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left in plate: L. F. Abbott, Pinxit; lower center: VALENTINE GREEN. / Published Octr. 16th, 1788, by V & R. Green, Newman Street, Oxford Street, London; lower right in plate: Seipsum Sculpsit

Provenance

Christopher Lennox-Boyd; (Nicholas Stogdon, Oxford); purchased 2001 by NGA.

Associated Names

Stogdon, N.G.

Bibliography

1884: Smith, John Chaloner. British mezzotinto portraits, being a descriptive catalogue of these engravings from the introduction of the art to the early part of the present century. 4 vols. London: Henry Sotheran and Co., 1884.

1902: Whitman, Alfred. British Mezzotinters: Valentine Green. London: A.H. Bullen, 1902.