Mrs. Pelham, 1775

Not on View

Medium

mezzotint in brown on laid paper

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.)

Credit Line

Paul Mellon Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

Smith 1884, no. 59, State i/ii

Accession Number

2001.96.1

Artists / Makers

William Dickinson (artist) British, 1746 - 1823

Sir Joshua Reynolds (artist after) British, 1723 - 1792

Image Use

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Inscription

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

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Artemis Fine Arts Inc.

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.