Lord Cornwallis

1799

William Ward

Artist, British, 1766 - 1826

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    mezzotint on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Paul Mellon Fund

  • Dimensions

    plate: 65.4 x 46.1 cm (25 3/4 x 18 1/8 in.)
    sheet: 75.3 x 53.2 cm (29 5/8 x 20 15/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2001.118.68

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Chaloner Smith 1884, no. 13, State ii/iii


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Boulton Collection, Great Tew. 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.

1926

  • Russell, Charles Edward. English Mezzotint Portraits and Their States. 2 vols. London: Halton and Truscott Smith, Ltd., 1926.

Inscriptions

lower left in plate: Painted by Sir W. Beechey R.A.; lower center in plate: MARQUIS CORNWALLIS, / LORD LIEUTENANT and COMMANDER in CHIEF of HIS MAJESTY'S FORCES... / Knight of the Most Noble Order of the Garter... / London Published Jany. 1. 1799 by A.C. de Poggi, No. 91, New Bond Street; lower right in plate: Engraved by J. Ward.

Wikidata ID

Q76360115


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