Mrs. Pelham

1775

William Dickinson

Artist, British, 1746 - 1823

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    mezzotint in brown on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Paul Mellon Fund

  • Dimensions

    plate: 61.5 x 38 cm (24 3/16 x 14 15/16 in.)
    sheet: 70.4 x 52.5 cm (27 11/16 x 20 11/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2001.96.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Smith 1884, no. 59, State i/ii

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Christopher Lennox-Boyd; (C. G. Boerner Limited, New York); purchased 2001 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.

1926

  • Russell, Charles Edward. English Mezzotint Portraits and Their States. 2 vols. London: Halton and Truscott Smith, Ltd., 1926.

2001

  • C. G. Boerner Ltd. Mezzotints from the Collection of Christopher Lennox-Boyd. London, 2001: no. 40.

Inscriptions

lower left in plate: Painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds; lower center in plate: Pubd. May 8th 1775; lower rightin plate: Engrav'd by R W. Dickinson; by later hand, lower center verso in graphite: P48.783

Wikidata ID

Q76359928

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