Richard Tompson

c. 1680

Francis Place

Artist, British, 1647 - 1728

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    mezzotint on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Paul Mellon Fund

  • Dimensions

    plate: 26.2 x 20.9 cm (10 5/16 x 8 1/4 in.)
    sheet: 28.5 x 23 cm (11 1/4 x 9 1/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2001.118.39

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Smith 1884, no. 13, State ii/iii

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: Richard Thompson / P. Tempest excudib.; lower left in plate: G. Soust pinxit; lower right in plate: F. Place fecit; by later hand, upper center in ink: N. 18 / N. 18

Wikidata ID

Q76339965

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