Clytie, 1785

Not on View

Medium

mezzotint on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 35 x 40.4 cm (13 3/4 x 15 7/8 in.)

sheet: 46.2 x 59.2 cm (18 3/16 x 23 5/16 in.)

Credit Line

Paul Mellon Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

Whitman 1902, no. 244, State i/ii

Accession Number

2001.118.11

Artists / Makers

Valentine Green (artist) British, 1739 - 1813

Maria Cosway (artist after) British, 1759 - 1838

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left in plate: Painted by Maria Cosway; lower right in plate: Engraved by V. Green, Mezzotinto Engraver to his Majesty & to the Elector Palatine; lower center in plate: CLYTIE. / "Nec fe movit humo, tantum spectabat euntis ora Dei; vultusque suos flectebat ad illum." Ovid / Published Decr. 1st 1785 by V. Green and Son, No. 29. Newman Street, Oxford Street London; lower right in plate: Se vend chez les Freres Torré, Marchands d'Estampes
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Provenance

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

Associated Names

Stogdon, N.G.

Bibliography

1902: Whitman, Alfred. British Mezzotinters: Valentine Green. London: A.H. Bullen, 1902.