View of a Prison, c. 1765

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Medium

mezzotint on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 55.9 x 40.2 cm (22 x 15 13/16 in.)

sheet: 64.9 x 52.1 cm (25 9/16 x 20 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Paul Mellon Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

IFF (1700), no. 5

Accession Number

2001.118.2

Artists / Makers

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

Image Use

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Inscription

in plate across bottom: F. Blondel invenit et fecit 1765; by later hand, lower left in graphite: Rx26 / CCB / P11852 / CS2 #i/iii; by later hand, lower left verso in graphite: 22x32 / 531 x 406I, 562 x 406 PL / P11,852 vvv CD 2 i/ii

Provenance

Private Collection, England; Christopher Lennox-Boyd, inv. no. P11,852; (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.