William Pitt

1789

John Jones

Artist, British, c. 1747 - 1797

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    mezzotint on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Paul Mellon Fund

  • Dimensions

    plate: 50.8 x 35.2 cm (20 x 13 7/8 in.)
    sheet: 51.1 x 35.7 cm (20 1/8 x 14 1/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2001.118.14

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Chaloner Smith 1884, no. 63, State ii/ii

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Austrian private collection (from mount, according to Christian Nebehay). Christian Nebehay (Christpher Mendez, London, 1960s); 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: Publish'd as the Act directs, May 20th, 1789, by J. Jones, No 75 Great Portland / The Right Honorable WILLIAM PITT, Chancellor of the Exchequer / 1789; lower right in plate: Engraved by John Jones

Wikidata ID

Q76346315

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