Children Bathing (The Hoppner Children)

1804

James Ward

Artist, British, 1769 - 1859

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    mezzotint on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Paul Mellon Fund

  • Dimensions

    plate: 55.9 x 45.6 cm (22 x 17 15/16 in.)
    sheet: 59.6 x 49.5 cm (23 7/16 x 19 1/2 in.)

  • Accession

    2001.118.67

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Chaloner Smith 1884, no. 27, 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.

1904

  • Frankau, Julia. William Ward, A.R.A., James Ward, R.A.: Their Lives and Works. London, 1904.

Inscriptions

by later hand, lower right verso in graphite: Hoppner Children / 3 1/2 Top / Premier Etat, lettre ouvert; lower left in plate: Painted by I Hoppner, R.A. Portrait painter to His RH the Prince of Wales; lower center in plate: CHILDREN BATHING. / Publish'd April / 1799 by Ward & Co at Mr Say's No 78. Charlotte Street, Portland Chapel
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Wikidata ID

Q76342951

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