Benjamin West and His Son Raphael Lamar West

1775

Valentine Green

Artist, British, 1739 - 1813

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    mezzotint with engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Paul Mellon Fund

  • Dimensions

    plate: 38.8 x 27.7 cm (15 1/4 x 10 7/8 in.)
    sheet: 61.6 x 45.5 cm (24 1/4 x 17 15/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2001.96.7

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Whitman 1902, no. 49, State i/ii

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Bibliography

1902

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

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. 36.

Inscriptions

lower left in plate: B. West R.A. pinxit, London, 1773 / Publish'd Feb 15th 1775, by V. Green; lower right in plate: V. Breen, Engraver in Metzotinto to his Majesty, fecit; by later hand, lower right in graphite: P4116 / CS138 - R iv/v / W i/ii / RTL / CLB; by later hand, lower left verso in graphite: 240x240 / 299 x 277 / 389 x 277 ; by later hand, lower center in graphite: 33 / Pierie

Markings

none

Watermarks

[text to be identified - Auvergne papermaker?] and IHS with cross and nails

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