Children Bathing (The Hoppner Children), 1804

Not on View

Medium

mezzotint on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 55.9 x 45.6 cm (22 x 17 15/16 in.)

sheet: 59.6 x 49.5 cm (23 7/16 x 19 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Paul Mellon Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

Chaloner Smith 1884, no. 27, State ii/iii

Accession Number

2001.118.67

Artists / Makers

James Ward (artist) British, 1769 - 1859

John Hoppner (artist after) British, 1758 - 1810

Image Use

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Inscription

by later hand, lower right verso in graphite: Hoppner Children / 3 1/2 Top / Premier Etat, lettre ouvert; lower left in plate: Painted by I Hoppner, R.A. Portrait painter to His RH the Prince of Wales; lower center in plate: CHILDREN BATHING. / Publish'd April / 1799 by Ward & Co at Mr Say's No 78. Charlotte Street, Portland Chapel
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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.

1904: Frankau, Julia. William Ward, A.R.A., James Ward, R.A.: Their Lives and Works. London, 1904.