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.
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.