Richard, Lord Edgecumbe
Copyright
Work in the public domain
image: Courtauld
image: Courtauld
Maker
After
(artist)
1723-1792
(artist)
1723-1792
(engraver)
1773-1835
(publisher)
1773-1835
Title
Richard, Lord Edgecumbe
Date of Production
(c.) 1820
Medium
printed in black
wove paper
mezzotint
wove paper
mezzotint
Dimensions
Height: 22.6 cm
Width: 16.4 cm
Width: 16.4 cm
Object Number
G.1990.WL.6117.73
Mode of Acquisition
Witt Library, transfer
Credit
Courtauld Gallery, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)
Location
Not currently on display
Keywords
Inscriptions
Inscription: Sir Joshua Reynolds Pinx.t //
Inscription: S.W. Reynolds Sculp.t //
Inscription: RICHARD, LORD EDGECUMBE. / Proof //
Inscription: 83 / III //
Stamp: WITT / LIBRARY //
Inscription: Sir Joshua Reynolds / 250th Anniversary Exhib, City Art Gallery, Plymouth 1973 //
Label: Lit: E.K., p 37, pl. 5 / 65 Richard, First Lord Edgecumbe c. 1740 / Mezzotint engraving, 0.23 x 0.165 / Engraved by S.W. Reynolds, 1838, after Joshua Reynolds. / The original painting by Reynolds, 1.27 x 1.01 was destroyed at Mount / Edgcumbe by enemy action during World War II. / It was traditionally painted about 1740 but probably redone in the late / 1740's. The landscape background may have been repainted by Richard, / 2nd Lord Edgcumbe, (as in no. 18). / Richard, 1st Lord Edgcumbe, was Reynolds's early patron, who / encouraged his first attempts at painting (no. 1) and obtained, through / an introduction to Keppel, Reynolds's passage to Italy. / Lent by the trustees of the Cottonian Collection. //
Inscription: S.W. Reynolds Sculp.t //
Inscription: RICHARD, LORD EDGECUMBE. / Proof //
Inscription: 83 / III //
Stamp: WITT / LIBRARY //
Inscription: Sir Joshua Reynolds / 250th Anniversary Exhib, City Art Gallery, Plymouth 1973 //
Label: Lit: E.K., p 37, pl. 5 / 65 Richard, First Lord Edgecumbe c. 1740 / Mezzotint engraving, 0.23 x 0.165 / Engraved by S.W. Reynolds, 1838, after Joshua Reynolds. / The original painting by Reynolds, 1.27 x 1.01 was destroyed at Mount / Edgcumbe by enemy action during World War II. / It was traditionally painted about 1740 but probably redone in the late / 1740's. The landscape background may have been repainted by Richard, / 2nd Lord Edgcumbe, (as in no. 18). / Richard, 1st Lord Edgcumbe, was Reynolds's early patron, who / encouraged his first attempts at painting (no. 1) and obtained, through / an introduction to Keppel, Reynolds's passage to Italy. / Lent by the trustees of the Cottonian Collection. //
Provenance
Information not yet known or updated
Literature
Nineteenth-Century Mezzotinters Samuel William Reynolds
No. 67 on p. 151
in appendix
No. 67 on p. 151
in appendix
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