Richard Tattersall, 1787

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Medium

mezzotint on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 50.5 x 35 cm (19 7/8 x 13 3/4 in.)

sheet: 51.8 x 36.1 cm (20 3/8 x 14 3/16 in.)

Credit Line

Paul Mellon Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

Chaloner Smith 1884, no. 71, State only

Accession Number

2001.118.15

Artists / Makers

John Jones (artist) British, c. 1747 - 1797

Thomas Beach (artist after) British, 1738 - 1806

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left in plate: Painted by Thomas Beach; lower right in plate: Engraved by John Jones.; lower center in plate: MR TATTERSALL. / London, Publish'd as the Act directs, Dcr. 8th 1787, by T Beach, No. 54, Wigmore Street, Cavendish Square.

Provenance

Ralph Willett, Merly (his sale, 8 September 1812). Christopher Lennox-Boyd; (Nicholas Stogdon, Oxford); purchased 2001 by NGA.

Associated Names

Stogdon, N.G.

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.