Sir Peter Lely

1680s

Isaak Beckett

Artist, English, 1653 - 1688

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    mezzotint on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    plate: 33.8 x 24.8 cm (13 5/16 x 9 3/4 in.)
    sheet: 34 x 25.2 cm (13 3/8 x 9 15/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2002.8.4

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Chaloner Smith 1884, no. 63

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Hill-Stone Inc., New York); 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.

Inscriptions

across bottom of plate: Petrus Lellij Eques Pictor Caroli 2. di / Magna Britannia Franciae Hibernia Regis. / Petrus Lelliu Eques pinxit; I. Becket Cum Privelegio Regis; Sold by Alex Browne at ye blew / ballcony in little Queen Street

Watermarks

Strasbourg lily

Wikidata ID

Q76342481

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