A View of the Inside of the New Prison at Rome, c. 1765

Not on View

Medium

mezzotint on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 56.4 x 40.5 cm (22 3/16 x 15 15/16 in.)

sheet: 59.4 x 44.6 cm (23 3/8 x 17 9/16 in.)

Credit Line

Paul Mellon Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

IFF (1700), no. 4

Accession Number

2001.118.1

Artists / Makers

Georges François Blondel (artist) French, 1730 - c. 1791

Image Use

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Inscription

lower center in plate: A View of the Inside of the New Prison at Rome / To the Rt. Hnble. RICHARD Earl Temple this Plate is most Humbly Dedicated... lower left in plate: Plate 1; lower right in plate: G F Blondell Delint. & Sculp. / GF Blondel; by later hand, lower left verso in graphite: 25/2 179 / 13914/SPB; by later hand, lower center verso in graphite: 529 x 407I/ 565x407 PL / P3359 VVV CD 1 ii/ii

Provenance

Private Collection, England; Christopher Lennox-Boyd, inv. no. P3359; (Nicholas Stogdon, Oxford); purchased 2001 by NGA.

Associated Names

Lennox-Boyd, Christopher
Private Collection, England
Sotheby's, London
Stogdon, N.G.

Bibliography

1922: "The Mezzotints of G. F. Blondel." The Print Collector's Quarterly, 9 (1922): 303-314.

1930: Inventaire du Fonds Français, Graveurs du XIIIe siècle. Paris, 1930 - 1977.