The Female Correspondent, 1771

Not on View

mezzotint on laid paper

plate: 50.4 x 35.5 cm (19 13/16 x 14 in.)

sheet: 51.8 x 36.6 cm (20 3/8 x 14 7/16 in.)

Chaloner Smith 1884, undescribed

2001.118.72

John Boydell (artist) British, 1719 - 1804

James Watson (artist) British, c. 1740 - 1790

Gabriel Metsu (artist after) Dutch, 1629 - 1667

lower left in plate: Metzu pinxit. / Published Jany. 7th 1771 by J. Boydell Engraver in Cheapside; lower right in plate: James Watson Fecit.

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

Lennox-Boyd, Christopher
Private Collection, England
Sotheby's, London
Stogdon, N.G.

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: Goodwin, Gordon. Thomas Watson, James Watson, Elizabeth Judkins. London, 1904.