Sir Peter Lely, 1680s

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Medium

mezzotint on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 33.8 x 24.8 cm (13 5/16 x 9 3/4 in.)

sheet: 34 x 25.2 cm (13 3/8 x 9 15/16 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

Chaloner Smith 1884, no. 63

Accession Number

2002.8.4

Artists / Makers

Isaak Beckett (artist) English, 1653 - 1688

Sir Peter Lely (artist after) English, born Germany, 1618 - 1680

Image Use

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Inscription

across bottom of plate: Petrus Lellij Eques Pictor Caroli 2. di / Magna Britannia Franciae Hibernia Regis. / Petrus Lelliu Eques pinxit; I. Becket Cum Privelegio Regis; Sold by Alex Browne at ye blew / ballcony in little Queen Street

Provenance

(Hill-Stone Inc., New York); purchased 2001 by NGA.

Associated Names

Hill-Stone, Inc.

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.