The Blacksmith's Shop, 1771

Not on View

mezzotint on laid paper

plate: 61.1 x 43400 cm (24 1/16 x 17086 9/16 in.)

sheet: 61 x 43.9 cm (24 x 17 5/16 in.)

Smith 1884, no. 47, State i/ii

2001.96.6

Richard Earlom (artist) British, 1743 - 1822

Joseph Wright (artist after) British, 1734 - 1797

lower left in plate: Jos. Wright Pinxit; lower center in plate: J Boyedell Excudit Publish'd August 25, 1771; lower right in plate: Rd. Earlom fecit

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

Artemis Fine Arts Inc.

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.

2001: C. G. Boerner Ltd. Mezzotints from the Collection of Christopher Lennox-Boyd. London, 2001: no. 27.