Mrs. Margaret Woffington in the Character of Mrs. Ford in the Merry Wives of Windsor

1751

John Faber II

Artist, Dutch, c. 1684 - 1756

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    mezzotint on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Paul Mellon Fund

  • Dimensions

    plate: 50.5 x 35.4 cm (19 7/8 x 13 15/16 in.)
    sheet: 52.2 x 37 cm (20 9/16 x 14 9/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2001.118.77

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Chaloner Smith 1884, no. 392

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1994

  • Theatre: the Age of Garrick: English Mezzotints from the Collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd, Courtauld Institute Galleries, London, 1994, no. 4.

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.

Inscriptions

lower left in plate: E Haytley Pinx.; lower center in plate: Mrs. Margaret Woffington In the Character of Mrs. Ford in the Merry Wives of WINDSOR. / sold at the Golden Head near the Church Bloomsbury Square.; lower right: I. Faber fecit 1751

Wikidata ID

Q76346301

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