David Garrick in the Role of Richard III

1772

John Dixon

Artist, British, c. 1740 - 1811

John Boydell

Publisher, British, 1719 - 1804

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    mezzotint on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    plate: 63.7 × 40 cm (25 1/16 × 15 3/4 in.)
    sheet: 66.7 × 43.5 cm (26 1/4 × 17 1/8 in.)

  • Accession

    2018.156.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Smith 1884, no. 15, State i/ii

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Hill-Stone Inc., South Dartmouth, MA); purchased 2018 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: no. 15, i/ii

Inscriptions

lower left in plate: NDance pinx; lower center in plate: Publish'd according to Act of Parliament April 28 1772 by John Boydell Cheapside London J. Dixon Fecit; lower right in image: J. Dixon Fecit

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