John, Earl of Mar, Lord Erskine, 1703

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Medium

mezzotint with engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 44.9 x 30.9 cm (17 11/16 x 12 3/16 in.)

sheet: 49.9 x 33.2 cm (19 5/8 x 13 1/16 in.)

Credit Line

Paul Mellon Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

Chaloner Smith 1884, no. 159, State i/iii

Accession Number

2001.118.52

Artists / Makers

John Smith (artist) English, probably 1652 - 1742

Sir Godfrey Kneller (artist after) English, 1646 - 1723

Image Use

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Inscription

upper left in plate: AEtatis; upper right in plate: Suae 28; lower left in plate: G. Kneller SR Imp. et Agnl. Eques Aur. pinx.; lower right in plate: I. Smith fe. 1703; lower center in plate: John Earl of Mar Lord Erskine Garioch & Alloa, Heritable Governeur & Captain of Stirling Castle / one of the Lords of Her Majesty's Privy Council and Exchequer, and Colonel of a Regiment of Foot.
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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.