Miss Nelly O'Brien

c. 1771

Samuel Okey

Artist, British, active mid - late 18th century

Samuel Okey after Sir Joshua Reynolds

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    mezzotint on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Paul Mellon Fund

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 35.4 x 25000 cm (13 15/16 x 9842 1/2 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2001.96.10

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Smith 1884, no. 7, State i/ii

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Prince Liechtenstein (mount, according to Nicholas Stogdon); 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.

1926

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

Inscriptions

lower left in plate: J Reynolds Pinxt.; lower right in plate: Saml Okey Scupt.; by later hand on verso of mount in graphite: this is a Liechtenstein mount (NGS)

Wikidata ID

Q76357180

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