The Right Honorable Elizabeth Countess of Northumberland, 1681/1688

Not on View

Medium

mezzotint on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 34.4 x 25.5 cm (13 9/16 x 10 1/16 in.)

sheet: 36 x 27 cm (14 3/16 x 10 5/8 in.)

Credit Line

Paul Mellon Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

Chaloner Smith 1884, no. 78, State i/iv

Accession Number

2001.118.76

Artists / Makers

Isaak Beckett (artist) English, 1653 - 1688

Alexander Browne (artist) English, active late 17th century

Sir Peter Lely (artist after) English, born Germany, 1618 - 1680

Image Use

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Inscription

across lower center in plate: The Right Honble Elizabeth Countess of Northumberland; lower left in plate: P. Lellij Eques Pinxit; lower center in plate: I. Becket fecit.; lower right in plate: Sold by Alex Brown at ye blew ballcony in little Queen Street
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Provenance

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

Associated Names

Lennox-Boyd, Christopher
Stogdon, N.G.

Bibliography

n.d.: O'Donoghue

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.