The Oyster Woman, 1769

Not on View

Medium

mezzotint on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 50.6 x 35.5 cm (19 15/16 x 14 in.)

sheet: 57.2 x 43 cm (22 1/2 x 16 15/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gaillard F. Ravenel and Frances P. Smyth-Ravenel Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

Chaloner Smith 1884, no. 17, State only

Accession Number

2002.65.1

Artists / Makers

Philip Dawe (artist) British, c. 1750 - c. 1785

Henry Robert Morland (artist after) British, 1730 - 1797

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left in plate: Hen. Morland pinxt.; lower center in plate: Carington Bowles excudit. / The Oyster Woman / Published as the Act directs July 1. 1769 / Printed for CARINGTON BOWLES, Map & Printseller No 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, LONDON; lower right in plate: Phil. Dawe fecit
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Provenance

Christopher Lennox-Boyd; (C. G. Boerner Limited, New York); purchased 2002 by NGA.

Associated Names

Boerner LLC, C.G.
Lennox-Boyd, Christopher

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.

2001: C. G. Boerner Ltd. Mezzotints from the Collection of Christopher Lennox-Boyd. London, 2001: no. 18.