Museum Object Number1958.2764 A |
Print on glass
The Right Honourable William Pitt Esq:\r/ One of his Majesty's Principal Secretary's of State/ And One of his Majesty's most Hon:\ble Privy Council
Works on Paper
Bequest of Henry Francis du Pont
John Bowles & Son (Publisher and seller)
Richard Houston (Mezzotinter)
William Hoare (Painter)
1753/17541721c.1707
1763/176417751792
London, London, England, United Kingdom, Europe
1754-1764
1. Inscription; Bottom center; Sold by Jn.\o Bowles & Son, at the Black Horse in Cornhil
Portrait
Ink; Paper; Oil paint; Glass
Mezzotint, Engraving, Painted
14.6 (H) , 10.5 (W) , 12.8 (Image H) , 10.1 (Image W)
37 (H) , 26.6 (W) , 12.8 (Image H) , 10.1 (Image W)
H at left. W at bottom.
John Bowles & Son
Black Horse, Cornhill, London, England, United Kingdom, Europe
II
First state both engraved and sold by Houston. Bowles & Son published the second state, slightly cutting down the plate and erasing the inscriptions.
Text available soon.
[Book] Fowble, E. McSherry. 1987 Two Centuries of Prints in America, 1680-1880 : A Selective Catalogue of the Winterthur Museum Collection.
• Published: no. 60, pp. 112-13.
[Book] Smith, John Chaloner. 1884 British Mezzotinto Portraits; Being a Descriptive Catalogue of These Engravings from the Introduction of the Art to the early part of the present century. 2. 461-940.
• Listed under no. 92, pp. 679-80.