Leopards

1798

Samuel William Reynolds I

Artist, British, 1773 - 1835

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    mezzotint with etching and stipple touched with white chalk on laid paper [second proof]

  • Credit Line

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

  • Dimensions

    plate: 48.1 x 60.3 cm (18 15/16 x 23 3/4 in.)
    sheet: 51.9 x 64.9 cm (20 7/16 x 25 9/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2002.65.5

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Chaloner Smith 1884, no. 300

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

From one of the "blue paper albums" in the collection of either the artist or Sir Stafford Henry Northcote. 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.

2002

  • C.G. Boerner. English Mezzotints from the Lennox-Boyd Collection. New York, 2002: no. 76 ii/v.

Inscriptions

in plate, in image, at lower left: Northcote pinx

Wikidata ID

Q76357204

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