A Blacksmith's Shop
Richard Earlom, English, 1743 - 1822, after Joseph Wright of Derby, English, 1734 - 1797
1771
Mezzotint on laid paper
Impression: 21 3/4 × 17 in. (55.2 × 43.2 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College: Purchased through the Julia L. Whittier Fund
PR.952.66
Publisher
John Boydell, London, England
Geography/Culture
Europe, Great Britain
Period
1600-1800
Object Name
Classification
Not on view
Inscription
Inscribed, on plate, lower left: Joseph Wright pinxit.; lower right: Richard Earlom sculpsit.; lower center: John Boydell excudit 1771./A BLACKSMITH'S SHOP/From the Original Picture, Painted by Mr. Joseph Wright;/In the Collection of the Right Honourable Lord Melbourne./Size of the picture F3 I4 by F4 I2 in height. Published Aug.t 25th, 1771 by John Boydell, Engraver in Cheapside, London.
Course History
ARTH 16.17, Rembrandt, Joy Kenseth, Spring 2016
ARTH 16.17, Rembrandt, Joy Kenseth, Spring 2016
ARTH 2, Introduction to the History of Art II, Joy Kenseth, Mary Coffey, Winter 2016
ARTH 48, Art & Society in the Age of the Rococo, Kristin O‘Rourke, Winter 2016
SART 27, SART 28, SART 74, Printmaking I, Printmaking II, Printmaking III, Louise Hamlin, Spring 2014
SART 27, SART 28, SART 74, Printmaking I, II, III, Louise Hamlin, Spring 2013
SART 27, SART 28, Printmaking I: Intaglio, Printmaking II, Louise Hamlin, Winter 2013
SART 27, SART 28, Printmaking I: Intaglio, Printmaking II, Louise Hamlin, Winter 2013
SART 27, Printmaking I: Intaglio, Louise Hamlin, Spring 2012
SART 27, SART 28, Printmaking I: Intaglio, Printmaking II, Louise Hamlin, Winter 2012
Exhibition History
Treasures from the Print Collection, Beaumont-May Gallery, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, July 3-August 17, 1980.
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.
Selections from the Permanent Collection: An Introduction to the History of Art From the Year 1500 to the Present, Art 2, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, February 11-March 7, 1993
Reality and its Alternatives, Art History 2, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, December 4-March 13, 2005.
Points of View, Art History 2, ARTH 2, Winter 2016, Joy Kenseth and Mary Coffey, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Harrington Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 1-March 13, 2016.
Perception and Belief, Outreach Program, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October-November 1982.
Ivan Albright Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, July 26-September 14, 1994.
Forms and Messages: Selections from the Hood Museum of Art Collection, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Art History 2, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 19-March 10, 2002.
Baroque Prints from the College Collection, Barrows Print Room, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 9-February 16, 1975.
18th Century English Graphics, Lower Jewett Corridor, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 29-December 10, 1978.
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, ill, p. 9, fig. 8, checklist p. 19.
T. Barton Thurber, European Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2008, p.83, ill., fig. 1.
Provenance
The Old Print Shop, New York, New York; sold to present collection, 1952.
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