Jean Jacques Rousseau, 1766

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Medium

mezzotint on laid paper [proof]

Dimensions

plate: 39.1 x 27.9 cm (15 3/8 x 11 in.)

sheet: 50.5 x 35.2 cm (19 7/8 x 13 7/8 in.)

Credit Line

Paul Mellon Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

Chaloner Smith 1884, no. 7, State i/ii

Accession Number

2001.118.28

Artists / Makers

David Martin (artist) British, 1710 - 1776

Allan Ramsay (artist after) Scottish, 1713 - 1784

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left in plate: A. Ramsay Pinxt.; lower right in plate: D. Martin Fecit / 1766; by later hand, lower center in brown ink: Jean Jacques Rousseau / Vitam impendere vero

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.