William Pitt, 1789

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Medium

mezzotint on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 50.8 x 35.2 cm (20 x 13 7/8 in.)

sheet: 51.1 x 35.7 cm (20 1/8 x 14 1/16 in.)

Credit Line

Paul Mellon Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

Chaloner Smith 1884, no. 63, State ii/ii

Accession Number

2001.118.14

Artists / Makers

John Jones (artist) British, c. 1747 - 1797

George Romney (artist after) British, 1734 - 1802

Image Use

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Inscription

lower center in plate: Publish'd as the Act directs, May 20th, 1789, by J. Jones, No 75 Great Portland / The Right Honorable WILLIAM PITT, Chancellor of the Exchequer / 1789; lower right in plate: Engraved by John Jones

Provenance

Austrian private collection (from mount, according to Christian Nebehay). Christian Nebehay (Christpher Mendez, London, 1960s); Christopher Lennox-Boyd; (Nicholas Stogdon, Oxford); purchased 2001 by NGA.

Associated Names

Lennox-Boyd, Christopher
Mendez, Christopher
Nebehay, Christian
Private Collection, Austria
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.