Les Deux Ami (The Two Friends)

1778

John Raphael Smith

Artist, British, 1752 - 1812

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    mezzotint and etching on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Paul Mellon Fund

  • Dimensions

    plate: 26.2 x 19.9 cm (10 5/16 x 7 13/16 in.)
    sheet: 27.2 x 21 cm (10 11/16 x 8 1/4 in.)

  • Accession

    2001.118.60

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Chaloner Smith 1884, no. 154, State i/iii


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Christopher Lennox-Boyd; (Nicholas Stogdon, Oxford); purchased 2001 by NGA.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1884

  • Smith, John Chaloner. British mezzotinto portraits, being a descriptive catalogue of these engravings from the introduction of the art to the early part of the present century. 4 vols. London: Henry Sotheran and Co., 1884.

Inscriptions

lower center in plate: J.R. Smith delin: et sculpt: / Publish'd march 7th, 1778, by Wm Shrophsire, No 158, New Bond Street

Wikidata ID

Q76346337


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