Object Details
graphic artist
Watson, James
original artist
Van Loo, Jean-Baptiste
publisher
Boydell, John
Boydell, Josiah
maker
Boydell, John
Boydell, Josiah
Description
Mezzotint, trimmed, after portrait by J. B. Van Loo, once in the Blue Damask Bedroom at Houghton Hall, Norfolk, England. Now in the State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg. Print removed from George P. Marsh’s copy of The Houghton Gallery, vol. 2. This was the volume's frontispiece. SI Secretary's Library stamp embossed in lower margin.
Walpole, Earl of Orford and the first Prime Minister of Great Britain, built Houghton Hall where the paintings reproduced for the two-volume work, The Houghton Gallery, were displayed before their sale to Catherine the Great of Russia in 1779.
Location
Currently not on view
Credit Line
Marsh Collection
date made
1788
ID Number
1978.0534.03.01
accession number
1978.0534
catalog number
1978.0534.03.01
Object Name
Print
print
mezzotint
Object Type
Mezzotint
Other Terms
Print; Intaglio; Mezzotint
Physical Description
paper (overall material)
ink (overall material)
Measurements
plate: 50.5 cm x 35.25 cm; 19 7/8 in x 13 7/8 in
overall: 51.75 cm x 37.25 cm; 20 3/8 in x 14 21/32 in
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Data Source
National Museum of American History
Subject
Government
Link to Original Record
Record ID
nmah_786252