View of a Prison

c. 1765

Georges François Blondel

Artist, French, 1730 - c. 1791

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    mezzotint on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Paul Mellon Fund

  • 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.)

  • Accession

    2001.118.2

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    IFF (1700), no. 5

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Private Collection, England; Christopher Lennox-Boyd, inv. no. P11,852; (Nicholas Stogdon, Oxford); purchased 2001 by NGA.

Associated Names

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.

Inscriptions

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

Wikidata ID

Q76341007

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