Daughters of Sir Thomas Frankland Bart (The Sisters)

1797

William Ward

Artist, British, 1766 - 1826

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    mezzotint on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Paul Mellon Fund

  • 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.)

  • Accession

    2001.96.14

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Smith 1884, no. 38, State ii/iv

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.

Inscriptions

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

Wikidata ID

Q76360081

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