The North Front of Old Somerset House in the Strand, 1777

Not on View

Medium

etching, aquatint, and mezzotint on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet: 51.4 × 72.5 cm (20 1/4 × 28 9/16 in.)
plate: 50.5 × 71.5 cm (19 7/8 × 28 1/8 in.)
image: 43.2 × 67.1 cm (17 × 26 7/16 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Accession Number

2019.144.1

Artists / Makers

William Moss (artist) British, active 1775-1782

Francis Jukes (artist) British, 1747 - 1812

Image Use

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Inscription

in plate, below image, at left: Drawn & Etch’d by W. Moss.; in plate, below image, at center: To the R.t Hon.ble Earl Harcourt, this PLATE part of Sommerset House in the Strand. / is most humbly Dedicated by His Lordships, Obedient & Obliged Serv.t W. Moss. / publish’d as the Act directs, 31.st March 1777, by W. Moss No. 8, Oxford Chapel Court, Cavendish Square.; in plate, below image, at right: Engrav’d in Aquatinta by F. Jukes

Marks and Labels

William Augustus Fraser [1826-1898], London (Lugt 2830)

Provenance

William Augustus Fraser [1826-1898], London (Lugt 2830). (Andrew Edmunds, London); purchased 2019 by NGA.

Associated Names

Edmunds, Andrew
Fraser, William Augustus

Exhibition History

2021: Aquatint: From Its Origins to Goya, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2021 - 2022.

Bibliography

2021: Hoisington, Rena. Aquatint: From Its Origins to Goya. Washington, 2021: 177, fig. 4