Portrait of Pope Innocent the Tenth
Object Details
- artist attribution
- Velazquez, Diego Rodriguez de Silva y
- engraver
- Green, Valentine
- delineator
- Farington, George
- publisher
- Boydell, John
- Description
- Mezzotint after painting attributed to Velasquez, once in the Cabinet at Houghton Hall, Norfolk, England. Sent to the Hermitage Palace in 1779; sold to Andrew Mellon in 1930; since 1937 in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, as circle of Velazquez. Print removed from George P. Marsh's copy of The Houghton Gallery, vol. 1. Pencil note on mounting sheet: “Taken out for Cinc. Exhibition,” the Graphic Arts section of the Smithsonian’s exhibition at the Cincinnati Exposition of 1888.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Marsh Collection
- 1774
- ID Number
- 1978.0534.02.62
- accession number
- 1978.0534
- catalog number
- 1978.0534.02.62
- Object Name
- mezzotint
- Object Type
- Mezzotint
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- ink (overall material)
- Measurements
- sheet: 18.5 cm x 13 cm; 7 9/32 in x 5 1/8 in
- plate: 15.25 cm x 10 cm; 6 in x 3 15/16 in
- place engraved
- United Kingdom: Grand Bretagne
- place original made
- Spain
- Related Publication
- Gregory M. Rubinstein. Richard Earlom (1743-1822) and Boydell's Houghton Gallery
- See more items in
- Work and Industry: Graphic Arts
- Communications
- Marsh Collection
- Religion
- Art
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Portraits
- related event
- Cincinnati Industrial Exposition
- Record ID
- nmah_786113
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746b2-4e34-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
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