Mercury as a Pick-Pocket

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Maker

After
(artist)
1723-1792
(engraver)
1773-1835
(publisher)

Title

Mercury as a Pick-Pocket

Date of Production

(c.) 1820

Medium

printed in black
wove paper
mezzotint

Dimensions

Height: 38.9 cm
Width: 25.3 cm

Object Number

G.1990.WL.8647

Mode of Acquisition

Witt Library, transfer, 1990

Credit

Courtauld Gallery, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Inscriptions

Inscription: Sir Joshua Reynolds Pinx.t //

Inscription: John Dean fecit //

Inscription: Mercury //

Inscription: 1997 (2)

Stamp: WITT / LIBRARY //

Inscription: Published as the Act directs 2d. April 1777 by R. Sayer & J. Bennett, No. 53 Fleet Street. //

Inscription: Sir J. REYNOLDS / Mercury //

Inscription: C944/24(36) //

Provenance

Information not yet known or updated

Literature

Nineteenth-Century Mezzotinters Samuel William Reynolds
Fig. p. No. 57, p. 149
In appendix

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