The Female Correspondent

1771

John Boydell

Artist, British, 1719 - 1804

James Watson

Artist, British, c. 1740 - 1790

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    mezzotint on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Paul Mellon Fund

  • Dimensions

    plate: 50.4 x 35.5 cm (19 13/16 x 14 in.)
    sheet: 51.8 x 36.6 cm (20 3/8 x 14 7/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2001.118.72

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Chaloner Smith 1884, undescribed

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

  • Goodwin, Gordon. Thomas Watson, James Watson, Elizabeth Judkins. London, 1904.

Inscriptions

lower left in plate: Metzu pinxit. / Published Jany. 7th 1771 by J. Boydell Engraver in Cheapside; lower right in plate: James Watson Fecit.

Wikidata ID

Q76342964

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