The Lady Essex Finch, c. 1680

Not on View

Medium

mezzotint on laid paper [counterproof]

Dimensions

plate: 23.7 x 24.8 cm (9 5/16 x 9 3/4 in.)

sheet: 24.6 x 25.2 cm (9 11/16 x 9 15/16 in.)

Credit Line

Paul Mellon Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

Chaloner Smith 1884, no. 10

Accession Number

2001.118.4

Artists / Makers

Alexander Browne (artist) English, active late 17th century

Sir Peter Lely (artist after) English, born Germany, 1618 - 1680

Image Use

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Inscription

lower center of plate, in reverse: The Lady Essex Finch; lower right of plate, in reverse: P. Lelly Equis / Invenit.; lower left of plate, in reverse: Sold by Alex Browne at ye blue Ballcony / in little Queen Street

Provenance

Christopher Lennox-Boyd; (Nicholas Stogdon, Oxford); purchased 2001 by NGA.

Associated Names

Lennox-Boyd, Christopher
Stogdon, N.G.

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.