The Mitred Minuet

1774

Paul Revere

Associated Names
Paul Revere

Artist, American, 1735 - 1818

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving on wove paper mounted to wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, Mary E. Maxwell Fund)

  • 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

  • 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

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