Lady Broughton

1770

Thomas Watson

Artist, British, 1743 or 1748 - 1781

Sir Joshua Reynolds

Artist After, British, 1723 - 1792

Thomas Watson after Sir Joshua Reynolds

Attributed to

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    mezzotint on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Paul Mellon Fund

  • Dimensions

    plate: 62.2 x 38.1 cm (24 1/2 x 15 in.)
    sheet: 63.5 x 39.6 cm (25 x 15 9/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2001.96.15

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Smith 1884, no. 8, State iii/iii

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Mrs. E. M. Hamilton (not in Lugt). 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: Sir Joshua Reynolds pinxt.; lower center in plate: LADY BROUGHTON. / London, Printed for Robt. Sayer No. 53 Fleet Street, published as the Act directs Augt. 10 1770.; lower right in plate: T. Watson fecit

Wikidata ID

Q76358865

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