Object Number 1954.0502

Object Name

Print (Mezzotint)

Title

GENERAL GREEN.

Category

Prints and Maps

Credit Line/Donor

Bequest of Henry Francis du Pont

Creator (Role)

Valentine Green (Mezzotinter)
1739-1813

Thomas Stothard R.A. (Draftsman)
08/17/1755-04/27/1834

Charles Willson Peale (Painter)
04/15/1741-02/22/1827

Joseph Brown (Publisher)

Place of Origin

London, London, England, United Kingdom, Europe

Date

April 22 1785 (1785-1785)

Mark or Signature or Inscription or Label

1. Inscription; Lower left beneath image; Peel pinxit Philadelphia./ Stothard delin.\t Londini.
2. Inscription; Center beneath image; J. Brown Excudit.
3. Inscription; Lower right beneath image; V. Green fecit, Mezzotinto Engraver to the King of Great Britian,/ and the Elector Palatine.
4. Inscription; Bottom center beneath title; From an Original Picture in the possession of M,,\r Brown: Published by him April 22,,\d 1785 and Sold at N,,\o 10, George Yard, Lombard Street, London.

Subjects

Portrait; Military

Materials

Ink; Paper (laid)

Techniques

Mezzotint with minimal burin work, Engraving

Dimensions (inches)

21.5 (H) , 15.2 (W) , 19.6 (Image H) , 13.9 (Image W)

Dimensions (centimeters)

54.5 (H) , 38.6 (W) , 19.6 (Image H) , 13.9 (Image W)

Measurement Notes

Plate H: 20.6 in. (52.7 cm). Plate W: 13.8 in. (35.2 cm). Chain intervals: 3.2-3.4 cm; 8-9 laid lines per cm.

Publisher Summary

Brown, Joseph

Publication Date

04/22/1785

Place of Publication

No. 10 George Yard, Lombard Street, London, England, United Kingdom, Europe

State

II

Watermark

"IHS" within circle; countermark of "FIN/ DUPUY/ AUVERGNE 1749"

Edition Notes

Fowble lists this impression as state two, probably because of the burin work. Chaloner Smith records two states, the former containing the title with open letters.

Object Description

Text available soon.

Bibliography and Bibliographic Notes

[Book] Fowble, E. McSherry. 1991 To Please Every Taste: Eighteenth-Century Prints from the Winterthur Museum.
• Published: no. 33, p. 102.
[Book] Fowble, E. McSherry. 1987 Two Centuries of Prints in America, 1680-1880 : A Selective Catalogue of the Winterthur Museum Collection.
• Published: no. 80, p. 132.
[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.
• Published: no. 56, pp. 557-8, listed under Green.