Jemima Countess Cornwallis

1771

James Watson

Artist, British, c. 1740 - 1790

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    mezzotint on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Paul Mellon Fund

  • Dimensions

    plate: 39.1 x 27.9 cm (15 3/8 x 11 in.)
    sheet: 40.8 x 29.9 cm (16 1/16 x 11 3/4 in.)

  • Accession

    2001.118.74

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Chaloner Smith 1884, no. 35, State i/ii

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

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

Associated Names

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.

1926

  • Russell, Charles Edward. English Mezzotint Portraits and Their States. 2 vols. London: Halton and Truscott Smith, Ltd., 1926.

Inscriptions

lower center in plate: R. Sayer Excudit.; lower left in plate: Sr. Jos Reynolds Pinxt.; lower right in plate: Jos. Watson fecit.; lower center in plate: Published as the Act directs 20 April 1771

Wikidata ID

Q76342961

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