The Deshabille, 1776

Not on View

mezzotint on laid paper

plate: 33 x 22.9 cm (13 x 9 in.)

sheet: 34 x 26.1 cm (13 3/8 x 10 1/4 in.)

Chaloner Smith 1884, undescribed

2001.118.71

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

Gabriel Metsu (artist after) Dutch, 1629 - 1667

lower left in plate: Metzu pinxit; lower right in plate: Jas. Watson Sculp.; lower center in plate: The Deshbaille

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

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.