Details
Artist | Caroline Watson, English, 1760-1814 |
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Artist | after Joshua Reynolds, English, 1723-1792 |
Publisher | T. Cadell, English |
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Date | ca. 1789 |
Medium | stipple engraving printed in black ink on laid paper |
Dimensions | Image: 5 1/4 × 4 1/4 inches (13.3 × 10.8 cm) Plate: 9 × 6 inches (22.9 × 15.2 cm) |
Credit Line | Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps |
Accession Number | 09.1S1238 |
Department | Prints, Drawings & Photographs |
Not On View |
Signed, Marks, Inscriptions
Inscriptions | Inscribed, in plate, lower left: Sir Joshua Reynolds Pinx: Inscribed, lower right: Caroline Watson Engraver | to her Majesty sculpsit. Inscribed, center lower margin: Tum demum sana mentis oculus acute cernere | incipit, ubi corporis oculus incipit hebescere. | seneca. | Publish'd according to Act of Parliament March 1, 1789 by T Cadell; Strand Inscribed, in black ink, lower left edge: No 1238. Portrait of Sir Joshua Reynolds. | By - Caroline Watson. Inscribed, lower right corner: 12 / |
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Provenance
Mrs. James E. Scripps (Detroit, Michigan, USA);
1909-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
1909-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)