A Greyhound's Head
Object Details
- engraver
- Earlom, Richard
- delineator
- Farington, Joseph
- publisher
- Boydell, John
- artist attribution
- Wyck, Thomas
- Description
- Mezzotint after painting by Jan Wyck, once in the Small Breakfast Room at Houghton. Now in State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg. Print tipped onto sheet bound in George P. Marsh’s copy of The Houghton Gallery, vol. 1. At Houghton Hall the painting was hung as a pair with A Horse’s Head by Rubens, and the two small prints were mounted on the same page in the volume.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Marsh Collection
- 1777
- ID Number
- 1978.0534.02.74
- accession number
- 1978.0534
- catalog number
- 1978.0534.02.74
- Object Name
- mezzotint
- Object Type
- Mezzotint
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- ink (overall material)
- Measurements
- plate: 29.2 cm x 18.4 cm; 11 1/2 in x 7 1/4 in
- overall: 32.8 cm x 22.3 cm; 12 29/32 in x 8 25/32 in
- place made
- United Kingdom: England, London
- See more items in
- Work and Industry: Graphic Arts
- Communications
- Marsh Collection
- Art
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Dogs
- Record ID
- nmah_1694420
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746b2-0cf7-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
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