Subscription Receipt (Neptune and Juno)

1720s

Elisha Kirkall, after George Vertue, after Louis Chéron

Associated Names
Elisha Kirkall

Artist, English, c. 1682 - 1742

George Vertue

Artist After, British, 1684 - 1756

Louis Chéron

Artist After, French, 1660 - 1725

Media Options

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    mezzotint and etching printed in green and black on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Paul Mellon Fund

  • Dimensions

    plate: 19.1 x 22.5 cm (7 1/2 x 8 7/8 in.)
    sheet: 22.5 x 26.1 cm (8 7/8 x 10 1/4 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2001.118.17.1

  • Series Title

    Shipping Scenes

Associated Artworks

See all 17 artworks

Shipping Scenes

Elisha Kirkall

1729

Shipping Scene with Man-of-War

Elisha Kirkall

1682

Shipping Scene from the Collection of Alexander Nisbit

Elisha Kirkall

1682


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Dukes of Devonshire, Chatsworth (Lugt 719); (sale, Christie's London, 1984, no. 165); Christopher Lennox-Boyd; (Nicholas Stogdon, Oxford); purchased 2004 by NGA.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

lower center in image: London 172 / Received of / One Guinea, being the first Payment / 16 Prints of Shipping, in Chiaro / Oscuro, which I Promise to deliver / when finished, on Payment of One / Guinea more. / Witness my Hand; by the artist, lower center in brown ink: E. Kirkall

Wikidata ID

Q76338694

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