Image

Caroline Watson, printmaker

Portrait of Benjamin West, 1786

Description

Maker

Title

Portrait of Benjamin West

Year

1786

Medium

stipple engraving (printing process)

Materials/Techniques

Materials

Supports

Dimensions

21.9 x 16.4 cm (8 5/8 x 6 3/8 inches) (plate)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Original--Verso:in pencil inscribed, LL:Lu T ; inscribed, LC:Caroline Watson, 1759-/Nagler Kunstler Lexicon XXI . p. 323In Plate--Inscribed under image, LL:Gabriel Stuart pinxit. ; LC:Jn.° & Jos.h Boydell excudit 1786; LR:Caroline Watson Sculpsit./Engraver to her Majesty ; titled and inscribed, LC of plate:BENJAMIN WEST ESQ.R/HISTORICAL PAINTER to His MAJESTY./From the Original Picture, in the Proprietors Gallery./Published March 1.st 1786, by John & Josiah Boydell, N° 90 CheapsideLondon

Type

Credit

Gift of Alice G. Taft, Marianna Taft, Hope Smith and Brockholst M. Smith

Object Number

45.113.38

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Use

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