Love in Her Eyes Sits Playing, 1778

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Medium

mezzotint on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 35.4 x 39.7 cm (13 15/16 x 15 5/8 in.)

sheet: 38.7 x 42.7 cm (15 1/4 x 16 13/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gaillard F. Ravenel and Frances P. Smyth-Ravenel Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

Chaloner Smith 1884, no. 187, State i/ii

Accession Number

2002.65.8

Artists / Makers

John Raphael Smith (artist) British, 1752 - 1812

The Reverend Matthew William Peters (artist after) British, 1742 - 1814

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left in plate: Painted by Wm Peters R.A.; lower center in plate: Published May 17. 1778 by J. Boydell, No. 90. Cheapside London; lower right in plate: Engraved by J.R. Smith; by later hand, lower right in graphite: P 1405 F222i/ii CS 187 i/ii

Provenance

Christopher Lennox-Boyd; (C. G. Boerner Limited, New York); purchased 2002 by NGA.

Associated Names

Boerner LLC, C.G.
Lennox-Boyd, Christopher

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.

2001: C. G. Boerner Ltd. Mezzotints from the Collection of Christopher Lennox-Boyd. London, 2001: no. 48.