Edmund Halley
1735
Artist, British, c. 1684 - 1732

Artwork overview
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Medium
mezzotint on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
plate: 33.8 x 23.2 cm (13 5/16 x 9 1/8 in.)
sheet: 37 x 27 cm (14 9/16 x 10 5/8 in.) -
Accession
2001.118.79
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Catalogue Raisonné
Chaloner Smith 1884, no. 20, State i/ii
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.
1926
Russell, Charles Edward. English Mezzotint Portraits and Their States. 2 vols. London: Halton and Truscott Smith, Ltd., 1926.
Inscriptions
lower center in plate: Edmundus Halley, Soc. Reg. Soc. / Astronomus Requis et Geometriae, Professor Savilianus; lower left in plate: G. Kneller S.R.I. Ef. et Mag Brit Baron pinx; lower right in plate: G. White fec. et ex.
Wikidata ID
Q76341002