Belisane and Parcival under the Enchantment of Urma, 1782

Not on View

Medium

mezzotint in brown-black ink on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 44.9 x 55.6 cm (17 11/16 x 21 7/8 in.)

sheet: 47.5 x 59.4 cm (18 11/16 x 23 3/8 in.)
mat: 55.9 x 71.1 cm (22 x 28 in.)

Credit Line

Paul Mellon Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

Chaloner Smith 1884, undescribed

Accession Number

2001.118.63

Artists / Makers

John Raphael Smith (artist) British, 1752 - 1812

Henry Fuseli (artist after) Swiss, 1741 - 1825

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left in plate: Painted by H. Fusley; lower center in plate: Belisare & Parcival under the enchantment of Urma (not deciphered) / London, publish'd August 26 1782 by J.R. Smith

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Stogdon, N.G.

Exhibition History

2006: The Artist's Vision: Romantic Traditions in Great Britain, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2006 - 2007

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.

1902: Frankau, Julia. John Raphael Smith: His Life and Works. London: MacMillan and Co., 1902.