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- Title:
Sir Joshua Reynolds
- Date:
- 1780
- Medium:
- Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Plate: 19 x 15in. (48.3 x 38.1cm), Sheet: 22 1/2 x 17 3/4in. (57.2 x 45.1cm), Image: 17 3/4 x 15 inches (45.1 x 38.1 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in pen, lower left: "Sir Joshua Reynolds, painted to be placed in the collection of the Portraits of Painters [...]y of Florence, where alas! like too many other of the productions of his Pencil, [...] 1780, became evanescent."; in graphite, lower right: "pd [...] very [...] £2:12:5"
Watermark: Paris (?) 1768 [Heawood 2997]
Lettered, lower left: "Painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds"; center: "Published Decemr. 1st, 1780, by V. Green, No 29, Newman Street, Oxford Street."; lower right: "Engraved by V. Green, Mezzotint Engraver to his Majesty, & to the Elector Palatine."
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1977.14.12810
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- portrait
- Associated People:
- Reynolds, Sir Joshua (1723–1792), portrait and history painter and art theorist
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
Note: The Study Room is open by appointment. Please visit the Study Room page on our website for more details. - Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:38416
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