The Burgomaster
c. 1760
Artist, Irish, 1721 - 1775

Artwork overview
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Medium
mezzotint on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
plate: 35.1 x 25 cm (13 13/16 x 9 13/16 in.)
sheet: 36.1 x 26 cm (14 3/16 x 10 1/4 in.) -
Accession
2001.118.13
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Catalogue Raisonné
Chaloner Smith 1884, no. 147, State i/ii
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
John Constable; Max Paul Albert von Baldinger-Seidenberg (1837-1904), Stuttgart (Lugt 212). 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
by later hand, lower left in graphite: R H; by later hand, lower center in graphite: JC 79/I; by later hand, lower right in graphite: R. Houston; by later hand, lower left verso in graphite: 17972 / 44; by later hand, lower center verso in graphite: Houston, Bürgermeister nach Rembrandt / from pic in coll. of John Barnard / A 39 CS 47 i/ii C 79 i/ii; by later hand, lower right in graphite: P43702; Coll: John Constable, R.A. / and P. von Boldinger-Seidenberg
Wikidata ID
Q76355892