Miss Kitty Dressing, 1781

Not on View

Medium

mezzotint on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 45.5 x 33 cm (17 15/16 x 13 in.)

sheet: 50.5 x 39.1 cm (19 7/8 x 15 3/8 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

Smith 1884, no. 47, State i/ii

Accession Number

1990.81.2

Artists / Makers

Thomas Watson (artist) British, 1743 or 1748 - 1781

Joseph Wright (artist after) British, 1734 - 1797

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left in plate: Painted by R. Wright; lower right in plate: Engraved by T. Watson; lower center in plate: London Publifh'd Feby.20th.1781, for Watfon & Dickinfon No.158.New Bond Street.

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.

1904: Goodwin, Gordon. Thomas Watson, James Watson, Elizabeth Judkins. London, 1904, 65.

1959: Clayton (date?), 21.