Richard Earlom, 1743–1822, Britishafter Johan Joseph Zoffany, 1733–1810, German, active in Britain (from 1760)Published by Robert Sayer, 1725–1794, British
Title:
Colonel Mordaunt's Cock Match at Lucknow
Date:
1792
Materials & Techniques:
Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 21 1/4 x 27 1/2 inches (54 x 69.9 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed on verso in graphite, lower center: "X"; lower right: "2"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The Romantic Print in the Age of Revolutions: Hero, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History (Yale Center for British Art, 2003-01-23 - 2003-06-01)
Publications:
Mildred Archer, India and British Portraiture, 1770-1825, Sotheby Parke Bernet, London, 1979, pp. 153-4, 497, fig. 94, ND 1327 I44 A72 (YCBA)Charles Greig, Zoffany in Eighteenth Century India, Transactions of the Romney Society, vol. 16, 2011, pp. 36, 37, NJ18 R65 T7 2011 (YCBA)John Chaloner Smith, British mezzotinto portraits, being a descriptive catalogue of these engravings from the introduction of the art to the early part of the present century : arranged according to the engravers, the inscriptions given at full length, and the variations of state precisely set forth : acc , Martino Pub., Mansfield Centre, CT, 2004, v. 1, pp. 253-54, Earlom no. 29, NE1816.G7 S58 2004Dudley Snelgrove, British Sporting and Animal Prints 1658-1874: A Catalogue, The Paul Mellon Collection , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1981, NE960.3 G7 B75 + Oversize (Mellon Shelf) (YCBA)