Object Number 1965.2627

Object Name

Print (Mezzotint)

Title

(Teresia Constantia Phillips)

Category

Prints and Maps

Credit Line/Donor

Gift of Mrs. Waldron Phoenix Belknap

Creator (Role)

John Faber Jr. (Mezzotinter)
1684-1756
Faber Jr. was one of London's most prolific mezzotint engravers. He used the "Jr." or "Junr." designation with his name until his father's death in 1721.

Joseph Highmore (Painter)
1692-1780

Place of Origin

London, London, England, United Kingdom, Europe

Date

1748

Mark or Signature or Inscription or Label

1. Inscription; Lower right; I. Faber fecit. 1748
2. Inscription; Lower left; I. Highmore pinx.t

Subjects

Portrait

Materials

Ink; Paper (laid)

Techniques

Mezzotint

Dimensions (inches)

15.4 (H) , 10.9 (W) , 12.2 (Image H) , 9.8 (Image W)

Dimensions (centimeters)

39.2 (H) , 27.8 (W) , 12.2 (Image H) , 9.8 (Image W)

Measurement Notes

Support H: 17.0 in. (43.1 cm). Support W: 11.4 in. (28.9 cm). Plate H: 13.9 in. (35.2 cm). Plate W: 9.9 in. (25.1 cm). H at left. W at bottom.

Place of Publication

London, England, United Kingdom, Europe

Watermark

None

Edition Notes

Possibly state II. Bromley describes a whole length, engraving of the sitter dated 1744; Smith suggests that this is probably a cut down plate.

Object Description

Text available soon.

Bibliography and Bibliographic Notes

[Book] Bromley, Henry. 1793 Catalogue of Engraved British Portraits: from Egbert the Great to the Present Time. Consisting of the Effigies of Persons in Every Walk of Human Life ... With an Appendix, Containing the Portraits of Such Foreigners as ... may Claim a Place in the British.
• Print listed on p.442
[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. 1. 1-460.
• Print listed as no. 285, pp. 410-411.
[Article] Fleischer, Roland E. 1987 "Gustavus Hesselius and Penn Family Portraits: A Conflict between Visual and Documentary Evidence". American Art Journal. 19 (3): 4-18.
• See fig. no. 5, p. 7.