The Royal Academy of Arts, 1773

Not on View

Medium

mezzotint on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 50.5 x 71.7 cm (19 7/8 x 28 1/4 in.)

sheet: 50.2 x 72.1 cm (19 3/4 x 28 3/8 in.)

Credit Line

Paul Mellon Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

Smith 1884, no. 1, undesc i/ii

Accession Number

2001.96.5

Artists / Makers

Richard Earlom (artist) British, 1743 - 1822

Johann Zoffany (artist after) British, 1733 - 1810

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left in plate: J Zoffany pinxit; lower center in plate: Publish'd August 1st. 1773. R. Sayer Excudit; lower right in plate: R. Earlom. Sculpt; by later hand, lower left verso in graphite: P42551

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: no. 1, undesc i/ii

1886: Wessely, J. E. Richard Earlom: Verzeichniss seiner Radirungen und Schabkunstblätter. Hamburg, 1886, no. 102, i/ii

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. 34.