Amanthis with Pearls, 1797

Not on View

Heads of Actresses

mezzotint touched with black and white chalk on laid paper [proof]

plate: 52.6 x 40.5 cm (20 11/16 x 15 15/16 in.)

sheet: 53.2 x 41 cm (20 15/16 x 16 1/8 in.)

Chaloner Smith 1884, no. 191, State [undescribed proof]

2002.65.7

John Raphael Smith (artist) British, 1752 - 1812

by later hand, lower left in graphite: O/; by later hand, lower center in graphite: Miss Walker in the Char (not deciphered) of (not deciphered)

Private collection (Lugt 2856). Christopher Lennox-Boyd; (C. G. Boerner Limited, New York); purchased 2002 by NGA.

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

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. 72.