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Description: | bound volume (dimensions 54 x 38 x 7) title inscr. on plate b.c. "The Most Illustrious Princess Sophia Electrice Dowager of Brunswick &c. / Done by I. Smith from an Original Painting lately brought from Hanover & sold by him at ye Lyon & Crown in Russell Street Covent Garden" CRE SMITH, John; (English; 1652-1743) PUB SMITH, John; (English; 1652-1743) Part of William Hunter's original bequest, this is one of three volumes which together contain 488 mezzotints, almost all made or published by John Smith. About two thirds are portraits of eminent late Stuart, early Hanoverian persons, and one third fancy and mythological subjects.
Instrumental in raising the standard of mezzotint portraits, Smith was the first British printmaker to gain a European reputation, and examples of his work were essential for any serious early to mid 18th century European print collection.
Hunter's set of volumes is a rare surviving example of a comprehensive collection of mezzotints compiled in the 1730s.
Princess Sophia, Electress of Hanover was the granddaughter of James I and mother of George I. ). The portrait is thought to have been originally painted by German portrait painter Friedrich Wilhelm Weidemann. The print is one of a number of royal portraits toward the end of volume two which are smaller, reversed versions of prints by Smith in volume one. | License: | http://www.hmag.gla.ac.uk/spirit/rights/ | Publisher: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Rights holder: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Subjects: | PORTRAIT : HALF-LENGTH : ALBUM : OVAL : DARK HOOD : LACE : JEWELS : BROOCH : VOLUME : HUNTER VOLUME : | Source: | Hunterian Museum | Creator: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Identifier: | http://www.huntsearch.gla.ac.uk/cgi-bin/... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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