Paulus Pontius
James Watson, English, 1740 - 1790
after Anthony van Dyck, Flemish, 1599 - 1641
about 1764
Mezzotint on laid paper
Plate: 14 × 10 in. (35.6 × 25.4 cm)
Sheet: 10 5/16 × 14 3/8 in. (26.2 × 36.5 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Guernsey Center Moore 1904 Memorial Fund
PR.987.69
Geography
Place Made: England, United Kingdom, Europe
Period
1600-1800
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Inscribed, in plate, lower right: Jas Watson fecit; inscribed, in plate, lower left: Ant van Dyck pinxt
Course History
ARTH 46, Northern Baroque Art, Joy Kenseth, Spring 2015
ARTH 16.17, Rembrandt, Joy Kenseth, Spring 2016
ARTH 2, Introduction to the History of Art II, Mary Coffey, Joy Kenseth, Winter 2019
Exhibition History
A Decade of Collecting, 1985-1995: Old Master and Nineteenth Century European Prints from the Hood Museum of Art, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, December 9, 1995-February 4, 1996, no. 8.
Albright Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire.
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
Richard Rand, "A Decade of Collecting, 1985-1995: Old Master and Nineteenth-Century European Prints", Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 1995, no. 8.
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. 4, fig. 2, p. 5, fig. 3, p. 6, fig. 4, checklist p. 23.
Provenance
Robert Dance, Inc., New York, New York; sold to present collection, 1987.
Catalogue Raisonne
Chaloner Smith 119
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