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Description: | bound volume (dimensions 54 x 38 x 6) inscr. on plate below image "Carolus D.G. Ang: Sco: Fra: et Hib Rex"; inscr. on plate b.l. "A van Dyke pinx:" and "I Beckett fe:"; inscr. on plate b.r. "Sold by I. Smith at the Lyon and Crown in Russell Street Covent Garden"; inscr. on page t.r. hand-written in brown ink "5" CRE BECKETT, Isaac; (English; 1653-1688) AFTER DYCK, Anthony van, Sir; (Flemish; 1599-1641) PUB SMITH, John; (English; 1652-1743) Part of William Hunter's original bequest, this is one of three volumes together containing 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.
Charles I was the second Stuart king from 1625 to 1649, a reign marked by civil wars. The print is one of three in the volume after portraits of Charles I by Royal portrait painter Anthony van Dyckwho set new standards for English portraiture. They all appear to be from a similar time in the monarch's life. It was engraved by Smith's teacher Beckett, many of whose plates Smith bought and republished after his death. | 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 : ARMOUR : COLLAR : CHAIN : GEORGE : KING : 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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