Francesco Bartolozzi
Robert Samuel Marcuard, English, 1756 - before 1788
after Joshua Reynolds, English, 1723 - 1792
1788
Etching and stipple in colors (partly reworked with watercolors) on laid paper
Sheet: 13 7/16 × 10 13/16 in. (34.1 × 27.5 cm)
Mount: 16 3/8 × 20 7/16 in. (41.6 × 51.9 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Jean and Adolph Weil Jr. 1935 Fund
2008.84.1
Publisher
Colnaghi & Co, London
Geography
Place Made: England, United Kingdom, Europe
Period
1600-1800
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed, in plate, lower right margin: Robert Marcuard sculpt. [t superscirpt] [curved around bottom right of oval image]; titled, in plate, lower center margin: FRANCIS BARTOLOZZI ESQR. [R superscript] / Ex Academia Regali Artium Londinis.; inscribed, in plate, lower left margin: Sr. [r superscript] Joshua Reynolds pinxt. [t superscript] [curved around bottom left of oval image]; inscribed, in plate, lower center margin: Pubd. [d superscript] as the Act directs Jany.1.1788 [y superscript] by Colnaghia Co. No. [o in Co and No superscript] 132 Pall Mall; inscribed, in graphite, on mount sheet, lower left: Sujets Istoirig [possibly, in script]; inscribed, in graphite, on mount sheet, lower center: 42; stamped, in ink, on mount sheet, lower left: MAPPE 42; stamped, in ink, on mount sheet, lower right: BLATT 29
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. 22.
Provenance
Collection of Prince of Liechtenstein; Helmut H. Rumbler, Frankfurt, Germany; sold to present collection, 2008.
Catalogue Raisonne
Nagler 29; Le Blanc 22
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