Daughters of Sir Thomas Frankland Bart (The Sisters), 1797

Not on View

Medium

mezzotint on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 58 x 45.2 cm (22 13/16 x 17 13/16 in.)

sheet: 61.2 x 58.4 cm (24 1/8 x 23 in.)

Credit Line

Paul Mellon Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

Smith 1884, no. 38, State ii/iv

Accession Number

2001.96.14

Artists / Makers

William Ward (artist) British, 1766 - 1826

John Hoppner (artist after) British, 1758 - 1810

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left in plate: Painted by I. Hoppner R. A. Portrait Painter to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales; lower center in plate: DAUGHTERS OF SIR THOMAS...Publish'd March 1. 1797. by W. Ward, Delancey Place, Hampstead Road.; lower right in plate: Engraved by W. Ward; by later hand, lower center in graphite: P. 11430 G838 ii/iv 7 125 ii or iv/iv? PLL/CLB; by later hand, lower left verso in graphite: 548 x 452 / 580 x 453 pl. p 11.430 p 2L CLB

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.