Love in Her Eyes Sits Playing

1778

John Raphael Smith

Artist, British, 1752 - 1812

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    mezzotint on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gaillard F. Ravenel and Frances P. Smyth-Ravenel Fund

  • Dimensions

    plate: 35.4 x 39.7 cm (13 15/16 x 15 5/8 in.)
    sheet: 38.7 x 42.7 cm (15 1/4 x 16 13/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2002.65.8

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Chaloner Smith 1884, no. 187, State i/ii

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Christopher Lennox-Boyd; (C. G. Boerner Limited, New York); purchased 2002 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.

2001

  • C. G. Boerner Ltd. Mezzotints from the Collection of Christopher Lennox-Boyd. London, 2001: no. 48.

Inscriptions

lower left in plate: Painted by Wm Peters R.A.; lower center in plate: Published May 17. 1778 by J. Boydell, No. 90. Cheapside London; lower right in plate: Engraved by J.R. Smith; by later hand, lower right in graphite: P 1405 F222i/ii CS 187 i/ii

Watermarks

crowned double headed eagle

Wikidata ID

Q76346390

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