Sir Joshua Reynolds
Valentine Green, English, 1739 - 1813
after Joshua Reynolds, English, 1723 - 1792
1780
Mezzotint with drypoint on paper
Plate: 18 13/16 × 14 13/16 in. (47.8 × 37.6 cm)
Sheet: 20 7/8 × 15 7/8 in. (53.1 × 40.4 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Adelbert Ames Fine Arts Awards Fund
2008.85
Publisher
Valentine Green
Geography
Place Made: England, United Kingdom, Europe
Period
1600-1800
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Inscribed, in graphite, lower left margin: [illegible] Joshua Reynolds, Ra [in script, faded]; inscribed, in graphite, lower right margin: NK 35972; inscribed, in graphite, on reverse, lower left: No 52 [52 underscored]; inscribed, in graphite, on reverse, lower right: 2/3; inscribed, in graphite, on reverse, lower right: PM-07-06
Course History
ARTH 41.03, European Art 1750 - 1850, Allan Doyle, Summer 2019
HUM 1, Dialogue with the Classics, Andrea Tarnowski, Spring 2019
HUM 1.02/HUM 1.03/HUM 1.04, Dialogues with the Classics, Carolyn Dever, Paul Carranza, Antonia Gomez, Fall 2019
HUM 1.05/HUM 1.06/HUM 1.07, Dialogues with the Classics, Klaus Mladek, Michelle Clarke, Andrea Tarnowski, Fall 2019
Exhibition History
The Artful Disposition of Shades: The Great Age of English Mezzotints, Owen Robertson Cheatham and Friends Galleries, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 19 through March 14, 2010.
Publication History
T.Barton Thurber, The Artful Disposition of Shades: The Great Age of English Mezzotints, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, Capital Offset Company Inc., 2010, checklist p. 21.
Provenance
Harvey S. Ladew (1887-1976), Monkton, Maryland; Paul McCarron, New York, New York; sold to present collection, 2008.
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