Mary Magdalen Washing Christ's Feet, from the series Houghton Gallery
Richard Earlom, English, 1743 - 1822
after George Farington, English, 1752 - 1788
after Peter Paul Rubens, Flemish, 1577 - 1640
1777
Mezzotint and etching on laid paper
Impression: 18 1/2 × 22 3/4 in. (47 × 57.8 cm)
Sheet: 19 11/16 × 25 1/4 in. (50 × 64.1 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift in memory of Mrs. Harvey Fisk by her children
PR.974.401
Geography
Place Made: England, United Kingdom, Europe
Period
1600-1800
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Inscribed, in plate, lower left: Rubens Pinxit. / G. Farington delin.t; lower right: Richard Earlom Sculpsit.; lower center: John Boydell excudit 1777./ MARY MAGDALEN WASHING CHRIST'S FEET./ In the Salon at Houghton. / Size of the Picture F6 I0 3/4 by F8 I2 in Length. / Published Aug.st 1st 1777 by John Boydell, Engraver in Cheapside London.
Exhibition History
Ivan Albright Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, July 26, 1994-September 29, 1994.
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. 20.
Provenance
Elizabeth Richmond Fisk (1885-1966) [Mrs. Harvey Edward Fisk], Woodstock, Vermont; to her children, Elizabeth Fisk Tyler (1912-1978), Margaretta Fisk Paine (1915-1952); Ursula Fisk Clough (1917-1989), and Anne Fisk Howe (1921-2001), 1966; given to present collection, 1974.
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