An Hermit, 1770

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Medium

mezzotint on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet: 58.1 x 44.9 cm (22 7/8 x 17 11/16 in.)

Credit Line

Paul Mellon Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

Chaloner Smith 1884, no. 47, State i/ii

Accession Number

2001.118.38

Artists / Makers

William Pether (artist) British, 1739 - 1821

Joseph Wright (artist after) British, 1734 - 1797

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left in plate: Josh. Wright Pinxit; lower center in plate: AN HERMIT. / Publish'd May 14th 1770. and Sold by Wm. Pether in Great Russell Street Bloomsby; lower right in plate: Wm Pether Fe

Provenance

Liechtenstein collection? Austrian private collection. (Christian Nebehay)1; Christopher Lennox-Boyd; (Nicholas Stogdon, Oxford); purchased 2001 by NGA.

1 Dealer notes

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.

1990: Clayton, Tim. "Catalogue of Engraved Works," in Wright of Derby. London, 1990: 231-258.