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Portraits of ladies in mezzotint after the paintings of famous artists from Anthony Vandyck (1599-1641) to Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792) : volume 1[-4]
Title
Portraits of ladies in mezzotint [graphic] : after the paintings of famous artists from Anthony Vandyck (1599-1641) to Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792) : volume 1[-4].
Published
[England], [between 1684 and 1799?]
Physical Description
197 prints in 4 volumes : mezzotints ; binding height 62 cm
Notes
Letterpress title pages printed in red and black.
Each volume with printed table of contents in letterpress; plates arranged alphabetically by sitter.
Provenance
Purchased from Charles Scribner's Sons, 3 March 1903 by Mrs. G.T. Bliss.
Mounted on leaf 33 (volume 1) formerly owned by Horace Walpole with notes in his hand: The Lord Churchill's two daughters / G. Kneller pinx. ; I. Smith fecit.
Mounted on leaf 8 (volume 3) formerly owned by Horace Walpole with notes in his hand: [Mrs. Le Maitre] / E.F. Calze pinxit. ; Vale. Green fecit.
Summary
A collection of 197 mezzotints of British ladies -- members of the Royal family, the nobility, and ladies of fashion -- by J. Wilson, J. Faber, I. Becket, T. Smith, J. Simon, R. Laurie, James Watson, Spicers, S. Watts, T. Ryley, Jas. McArdell, J.R. Smith, Val. Green, J. Murphy, R. Williams, Richd. Houston, Charles Townley, J. Saunders, Charles Spooner, Philip Corbutt, R. Corbutt, R. Purcell, J. Van der Vaert, E. Fisher, H. Meyer, J. Jones, W. Dickinson, R. Tompson, D. Martin, A. Blooteling, W. Faithorne, H. Gascar, P. Schenk, J. Finlayson, H. Fowler, S. Paul, W. Doughty, Robert Dunkarton, R. Earlom, G. White, and Elizabeth Judkins. Some prints in multiple states, proof impressions, before letters, etc.
Portraits are after paintings by: Sir Joshua Reynolds, T. Hudson, W. Wissing, G. Kneller, C. Philips, Zoffany, H.D. Hamilton, C. Read, Berridge, F. Wilson, A. Ramsay, M. Dahl, P. Falconet, R.E. Pine, T. Kettle, H. Hysing, J. Vanderbank, T. Stothard, Hayman, P. Lely, John Robinson, G. Willison, George Knapton, R. Cosway, E.F. Calze, R. Samuel, J. Vandervaert, Ant. Van Dyck, G. Schlaken, J.S. Liotard, Largilliere, N. Hone, J. Highmore, J. Closterman, N. Dance, T. Worlidge, Charles D'Agar, D. Gardiner, Farrel, Hamlet Winstanley, Samuel Cotes, F. Cotes, William Thompson, J. Riley, J.R. Smith, and H. Vorelst.
Variant and related titles
Bliss collection of portraits of ladies in mezzotint
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 11, 2010
Contents
v.1. A-D
v. 2. D-J
v. 3. J-R
v. 4. R-Z.
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Mezzotints - England - 18th century.
Mezzotints - England - 17th century.
Portraits - England.
Annotations (Provenance) - 18th century.
Binders' stamps (Binding) - Lloyd, Wallis & Lloyd.
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