Philip Mercier, 1735

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Medium

mezzotint on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 35.2 x 25.2 cm (13 7/8 x 9 15/16 in.)

sheet: 35.7 x 25.8 cm (14 1/16 x 10 3/16 in.)

Credit Line

Paul Mellon Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

Chaloner Smith 1884, no. 239, State ii/iii

Accession Number

2001.118.78

Artists / Makers

John Faber II (artist) Dutch, c. 1684 - 1756

Philip Mercier (artist after) French, born Germany, 1689 - 1760

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left in plate: Ipse pinxit.; lower right in plate: I Faber. fecit 1735.; lower center in plate: Philippus Mercier / Scutarius Primarius Pictor et Bibliothecarius Serenissimi Walliae Principis.; lower right in plate: Sold by I. Faber at the Golden head in Bloomsbury Square.
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Provenance

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

Associated Names

Lennox-Boyd, Christopher
Stogdon, N.G.

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.