The Royal Academy of Arts

1773

Richard Earlom

Artist, British, 1743 - 1822

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    mezzotint on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Paul Mellon Fund

  • Dimensions

    plate: 50.5 x 71.7 cm (19 7/8 x 28 1/4 in.)
    sheet: 50.2 x 72.1 cm (19 3/4 x 28 3/8 in.)

  • Accession

    2001.96.5

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Smith 1884, no. 1, undesc i/ii


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Christopher Lennox-Boyd; (C. G. Boerner Limited, New York); purchased 2001 by NGA.

Associated Names

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: no. 1, undesc i/ii

1886

  • Wessely, J. E. Richard Earlom: Verzeichniss seiner Radirungen und Schabkunstblätter. Hamburg, 1886, no. 102, i/ii

1926

  • Russell, Charles Edward. English Mezzotint Portraits and Their States. 2 vols. London: Halton and Truscott Smith, Ltd., 1926.

2001

  • C. G. Boerner Ltd. Mezzotints from the Collection of Christopher Lennox-Boyd. London, 2001: no. 34.

Inscriptions

lower left in plate: J Zoffany pinxit; lower center in plate: Publish'd August 1st. 1773. R. Sayer Excudit; lower right in plate: R. Earlom. Sculpt; by later hand, lower left verso in graphite: P42551

Watermarks

Cross above a shield in an oval

Wikidata ID

Q76355885


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