John, Lord Carteret

c. 1720

Peter Pelham

Artist, American, born England, 1697 - 1751

Sir Godfrey Kneller

Artist After, English, 1646 - 1723

Peter Pelham after Sir Godfrey Kneller

Attributed to

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    mezzotint on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Paul Mellon Fund

  • Dimensions

    plate: 35.2 x 25 cm (13 7/8 x 9 13/16 in.)
    sheet: 37.8 x 27.2 cm (14 7/8 x 10 11/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2001.118.36

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Chaloner Smith 1884, no. 5, State ii/iv

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 left in plate: G. Kneller Bart. pinx.; lower right in plate: P. Pelham fecit; lower center in plate: His Excellency John Ld. Carteret / Baron of Hames, Ld. Lieutenant & Govr. / Genl. of ye Kingdom of Ireland &c. / London, Sold by J. Bowles in Mercers Hall Cheapside; along lower edge of verso in graphite by unknown hand: 315 x 249 / 352 x 249 pi / C.S. 5ii/ii / P43815; lower right verso in graphite by unknown hand: P43815

Wikidata ID

Q76355205

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