Italianate Landscape
1762/ c. 1774
Artist, British, 1731 - 1809
Artwork overview
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Medium
etching, aquatint, and lift-ground aquatint printed in brown on wove paper
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Credit Line
Gift of the Washington Print Club in honor of Sherwood Smith
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Dimensions
sheet (trimmed within plate mark): 42.9 x 33.8 cm (16 7/8 x 13 5/16 in.)
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Accession
1989.47.1
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Catalogue Raisonné
Gunn 2015, no. 195
Artwork history & notes
Exhibition History
1995
Recent Acquisitions of Works of Art on Paper, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995.
2021
Aquatint: From Its Origins to Goya, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2021 - 2022.
Bibliography
1985
The Art of Paul Sandby. Exh. cat., Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1985: no. 79. The print catalogued in this entry ( from the British Museum) is falsely described as a unique impression; the NGA print is the same.
2015
Gunn, Ann V. The Prints of Paul Sandby (1731 - 1809). Turnhout, 2015: no. 195
Inscriptions
lower left in plate: P. Sandby fecit 1762; upper right verso by later hand in graphite: [illegible]
Wikidata ID
Q74882783