The Right Honorable Elizabeth Countess of Northumberland

1681/1688

Isaak Beckett after Sir Peter Lely

Associated Names
Isaak Beckett

Artist, English, 1653 - 1688

Alexander Browne

Artist, English, active late 17th century

Sir Peter Lely

Artist After, English, born Germany, 1618 - 1680

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    mezzotint on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Paul Mellon Fund

  • 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.)

  • Accession Number

    2001.118.76

  • Catalogue Raisonné

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

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

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

Associated Names

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.

Inscriptions

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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Wikidata ID

Q76342479

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