A View of the Inside of the New Prison at Rome
c. 1765
Artist, French, 1730 - c. 1791

Artwork overview
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Medium
mezzotint on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
plate: 56.4 x 40.5 cm (22 3/16 x 15 15/16 in.)
sheet: 59.4 x 44.6 cm (23 3/8 x 17 9/16 in.) -
Accession
2001.118.1
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Catalogue Raisonné
IFF (1700), no. 4
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Private Collection, England; Christopher Lennox-Boyd, inv. no. P3359; (Nicholas Stogdon, Oxford); purchased 2001 by NGA.
Associated Names
Bibliography
1922
"The Mezzotints of G. F. Blondel." The Print Collector's Quarterly, 9 (1922): 303-314.
1930
Inventaire du Fonds Français, Graveurs du XIIIe siècle. Paris, 1930 - 1977.
Inscriptions
lower center in plate: A View of the Inside of the New Prison at Rome / To the Rt. Hnble. RICHARD Earl Temple this Plate is most Humbly Dedicated... lower left in plate: Plate 1; lower right in plate: G F Blondell Delint. & Sculp. / GF Blondel; by later hand, lower left verso in graphite: 25/2 179 / 13914/SPB; by later hand, lower center verso in graphite: 529 x 407I/ 565x407 PL / P3359 VVV CD 1 ii/ii
Wikidata ID
Q76341004