Valentine Green, 1739–1813, Britishafter Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1723–1792, BritishPublished by Valentine Green, 1739–1813, British
Title:
Sir Joshua Reynolds
Date:
1780
Materials & Techniques:
Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Plate: 19 x 15in. (48.3 x 38.1cm)
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"
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
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Seeing Double : Portraits, Copies and Exhibitions in 1820s London (Yale Center for British Art, 2010-06-24 - 2010-09-19)Rembrandt in Eighteenth Century England (Yale Center for British Art, 1983-10-19 - 1983-12-30)Painters and Engraving - The Reproductive Print from Hogarth to Wilkie (Yale Center for British Art, 1980-03-26 - 1980-06-22)
Publications:
Peter Funnell, John Scarlett Davis : The Interior of the British Institution Gallery, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1984, pp.[ 4 ], [7 ], cat. no. 7, V 0103 (YCBA)