The Mitred Minuet
1774
Paul Revere
Artist, American, 1735 - 1818
Artwork overview
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Medium
engraving on wove paper mounted to wove paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet: 10.8 × 16.99 cm (4 1/4 × 6 11/16 in.)
support: 13.97 × 20 cm (5 1/2 × 7 7/8 in.) -
Accession Number
2015.19.783
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Catalogue Raisonné
Brigham 1969, pl. 39
More About this Artwork
John Singleton Copley, Paul Revere, 1768, oil on canvas, Gift of Joseph W. Revere, William B. Revere and Edward H. R. Revere, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(J. F. Andrews, New York); Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1953; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1981
The Artist as Illustrator, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1981
1990
Speaking Out: Five Centuries of Social Commentary in Printmaking, Telfair Academy of Arts and Sciences, Savannah, Georgia, 1990-1991
Bibliography
1969
Brigham, Clarence S. Paul Revere's Engravings. New York: Atheneum, 1969, pp. 124-125, pl. 39.
Inscriptions
lower right support in graphite by unknown hand: 25 00; upper right verso support in graphite by unknown hand: 6 / $18 00
text in plate:
No XV. / Engraved for Royal American Magazine. / Vol. I / Sold by Fellowes / The Mitred Minuet. / P Revere Sc.
Wikidata ID
Q77011638