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Death of the Doe

1804

George Stubbs

Artist, British, 1724 - 1806

George Townley Stubbs

Artist, British, 1756 - 1815

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Artwork overview

Medium

mezzotint on wove paper [proof before color]
Credit Line

Purchased as the Gift of the Krugman Family in Honor of J. Sylvia Krugman and Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund
Dimensions

sheet: 39.7 × 49.4 cm (15 5/8 × 19 7/16 in.), trimmed within platemark
Accession

2017.17.1
Catalogue Raisonné

Lennox-Boyd/Dixon/Clayton 1989, no. 145, State i/ii

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Lowell Libson Ltd, London); purchased 2017 by NGA.

Associated Names

Lowell Libson, Ltd.

Bibliography

1989

Lennox-Boyd, Christopher, Rob Dixon, and Timothy Clayton. George Stubbs: the Complete Engraved Works. London, 1989: no. 145, i/ii

Watermarks

EDMEADS & PINE

Wikidata ID

Q77258750

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