Edmund Halley

1735

George White

Artist, British, c. 1684 - 1732

Sir Godfrey Kneller

Artist After, English, 1646 - 1723

George White after Sir Godfrey Kneller

Attributed to

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    mezzotint on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Paul Mellon Fund

  • Dimensions

    plate: 33.8 x 23.2 cm (13 5/16 x 9 1/8 in.)
    sheet: 37 x 27 cm (14 9/16 x 10 5/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2001.118.79

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Chaloner Smith 1884, no. 20, State i/ii

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

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

Associated Names

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.

1926

  • Russell, Charles Edward. English Mezzotint Portraits and Their States. 2 vols. London: Halton and Truscott Smith, Ltd., 1926.

Inscriptions

lower center in plate: Edmundus Halley, Soc. Reg. Soc. / Astronomus Requis et Geometriae, Professor Savilianus; lower left in plate: G. Kneller S.R.I. Ef. et Mag Brit Baron pinx; lower right in plate: G. White fec. et ex.

Wikidata ID

Q76341002

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