The Lady Essex Finch

c. 1680

Alexander Browne

Artist, English, active late 17th century

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    mezzotint on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Paul Mellon Fund

  • Dimensions

    plate: 33.9 x 24.8 cm (13 3/8 x 9 3/4 in.)
    sheet: 34.9 x 25.7 cm (13 3/4 x 10 1/8 in.)

  • Accession

    2001.118.3

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Smith 1884, no. 10, State only

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Christopher Lennox Boyd; (Nicholas Stogdon, Oxford); 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.

Inscriptions

lower center in plate: The Lady Essex Fince; lower left in plate: P. Lellij Eques / pinxit.; lower right in plate: Sold by Alex Browne at ye blew Ballcony / in little Queen Street

Watermarks

Strasburg lily with WR

Wikidata ID

Q76335487

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