Etow Oh Koam, King of the River Nation

after 1710

John Simon

Artist, British, c. 1675 - 1751

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    mezzotint on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Paul Mellon Fund

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 41.2 x 25.4 cm (16 1/4 x 10 in.)

  • Accession

    2001.118.42

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Chaloner Smith 1884, no. 84, State i/ii

Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

2007

  • Fabulous Journeys and Faraway Places: Travels on Paper, 1450 - 1700, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2007

2016

  • Three Centuries of American Prints: from the National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington; National Gallery in Prague, Prague 1; Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso, Mexico City; Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, 2016 - 2017, no. 2.

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

across lower center of plate: Etow Oh Koam King of the River Nation / Sold at ye Rain Bow & Dove ye Corner of Ivey Bridge in the Strand; lower left in plate: I: Verelst pinxt:; lower center in plate: Simon Fecit

Wikidata ID

Q76346407

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