Museum Object Number1965.2974 |
Print (Mezzotint)
Miss Beatson
Prints and Maps
Bequest of Henry Francis du Pont
James Watson (Mezzotinter)
Katherine Rad (Painter)
Robert Sayer (Publisher)
Sayer became active as a printseller as early as the late 1740s. He built up his stock of copper plates by taking over others’ inventories, first Philip Overton, then James McArdell when he died in 1765. He worked in partnership with John Bennett from around 1774 to 1785, then operated alone again through 1793. When he died in February 1794, the firm (along with Sayer’s stock of plates) were taken over by another London print firm, Laurie & Whittle.
c.174017231725
1790177902//1794
London, London, England, United Kingdom, Europe
1768
1. Inscription; Lower right ; J. Watson fecit
2. Inscription; Lower left; C Read pinx,,\t
3. Inscription; Lower center; Printed for Rob.\t Sayer, N.\o 53 in Fleet Street.
Portrait
Ink; Paper (laid)
Mezzotint
9.3 (H) , 5.8 (W) , 5.9 (Image H) , 4.5 (Image W)
23.6 (H) , 14.7 (W) , 5.9 (Image H) , 4.5 (Image W)
Plate H: 6.1 in. (15.5 cm). Plate W: 4.6 in. (11.6 cm).
Sayer, Robert
1768
London, England, United Kingdom
II
None
State II, with inscription.
Text available soon.
[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. 4. 1429-1780.
• p.1491, no.8.
[Book] Goodwin, Gordon. 1904 British Mezzotinters: Thomas Watson, James Watson, Elizabeth Judkins.
• See pp.116-117, no.55.