Lord Cornwallis
1799
Artist, British, 1766 - 1826

Artwork overview
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Medium
mezzotint on laid paper
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Credit Line
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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
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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.
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Wikidata ID
Q76360115