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Portrait of Sir William Chambers

Maker

(artist)
1769-1837

After
(artist)
1741-1825

Title

Portrait of Sir William Chambers

Date of Production

(March 17) 1793

Medium

graphite and orange chalk on laid paper

Dimensions

Height: 24.5 cm
Width: 18.8 cm

Accession Number

D.1995.XX.3

Mode of Acquisition

V&A Purchase Grant Fund, December 1994

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords




Related Works

Portrait of Sir William Chambers

Label Text

This drawing was produced as part of the production process through which William Daniell made a series of soft ground etchings after portrait drawings by George Dance. Dance provided the original pencil drawings to be reproduced; Daniell then made a copy, such as this, in which he simplified and regularised Dance's more roughly sketched lines. This sheet was then placed over a copper plate prepared with a soft etching ground, and Daniell pressed through the lines of his drawing, so that when the sheet was lifted the soft ground would stick to the sheet, revealing crumbly lines of copper which could be etched and printed.

Notes

This drawing was traced from the original by George Dance, and then this copy was itself used to create a soft-ground etching, published in 'A Collection of Portraits Sketched from the Life since the year 1793 by George Dance, esq. R.A. and engraved in imitation of The Original Drawings by William Daniell, A.R.A.' in 1809 (a second vol. published in 1814). An impression of it is G.1990.WL.4165.17.

Provenance

Ben Weinreb, London (1912-1999); purchased from him by the Purchase Grant Fund 1994

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Inscription: Recto: lower centre edge, graphite, artist's hand: "Sir Wm. Chambers".

Inscription: March 17th 1793

Collector's mark: none.

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