Jacques III, Roy d'Angleterre (James III, Prince of Wales)

1704-1707

Gerard Edelinck

Artist, Flemish, 1640 - 1707

François de Troy

Artist After, French, 1645 - 1730

Gerard Edelinck after François de Troy

Attributed to

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching and engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 51.9 × 39.5 cm (20 7/16 × 15 9/16 in.)
    plate: 49.6 × 38.5 cm (19 1/2 × 15 3/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1974.116.72

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Robert-Dumesnil, no. 212, State iib/ii

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Friedrich August II, King of Saxony [1797-1854], Dresden (Lugt 971)

Associated Names

Bibliography

1875

  • Firmin-Didot, p.204, 557.

1967

  • Robert-Dumesnil, A.P.F. Le peintre-graveur francais, ou catalogue raisonne des estampes gravees par les peintres et les dessinateurs de l'ecole francaise, ouvrage faisant suite au peintre-graveur de M. Bartsch. Reprint (11 vols. in 6). Paris: F. deNobe, no. 212, iib/ii.

Inscriptions

recto: in plate, in frame of oval landscape below portrait: ET LATET ET LUCET; in plate, in frame of circle at left: LITTERIS INSIGNIS; in plate, in frame of circle at right: ET ARMIS; in plate, below portrait at center: Jacques III. Roy d'Angleterre &c. / agé de 16 ans [text printed from separate plate]; in plate, at bottom left, in rectangular frame: de Troyes Pictor Regis Pinx.; in plate, at bottom right, in rectangular frame: Edelinck Eques Romanus Sculptor Regis Sculpsit C. P. R. verso: at center, in graphite, in later hand: R D 212. II. [indecipherable]; at lower right, in graphite, in later hand: C 23972; at bottom right, in graphite, in later hand: 18212

Markings

recto: Friedrich August II (Lugt 971)

Watermarks

double-headed eagle

Wikidata ID

Q65568782

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