Portrait of Abraham van der Doort
Object Details
- engraver
- Green, Valentine
- delineator
- Farington, George
- publisher
- Boydell, John
- original artist
- Dobson, William
- Description
- Mezzotint from original painting by William Dobson once in the Cabinet at Houghton. Now in the State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg, with corrected title as Portrait of Abraham van der Doort. Print removed from George P. Marsh's copy of The Houghton Gallery, vol. 1. Pencil note on mounting sheet: “Taken out for framing '94.” SI Secretary's Library stamp embossed on lower left inside plate mark.
- [Abraham van der Doort, died 1640, Surveyor of the King's Pictures]
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Marsh Collection
- 1776
- ID Number
- 1978.0534.02.61
- accession number
- 1978.0534
- catalog number
- 1978.0534.02.61
- Object Name
- mezzotint
- Object Type
- Mezzotint
- Other Terms
- Print; Intaglio; Mezzotint
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- ink (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 17.75 cm x 11.75 cm; 7 in x 4 5/8 in
- plate: 15.25 cm x 10.25 cm; 6 in x 4 1/32 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
- Portraits
- Men
- Record ID
- nmah_786105
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ad-e80c-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
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