John Lord Sommers, 1713

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Medium

mezzotint on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 34.2 x 25.1 cm (13 7/16 x 9 7/8 in.)

sheet: 40.2 x 28.5 cm (15 13/16 x 11 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

Paul Mellon Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

Chaloner Smith 1884, no. 234

Accession Number

2001.118.47

Artists / Makers

John Smith (artist) English, probably 1652 - 1742

Jonathan Richardson, Sr. (artist after) English, 1667 - 1745

Image Use

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Inscription

lower center in plate: The Rt. Honble. John Lord Sommers.; lower left in plate: J. Richardson pinx. 1713,; lower center in plate: I. Smith fec.; lower right in plate: Sold by J Smith at the Lyon & Crown in Russell Street Covent Garden

Provenance

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

Associated Names

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.