$800.00
A brilliant example of mezzotint
Artist: Richard Earlom (1743-1822) after Anthony van Dyck (1599-1641) from an intermediary drawing by Joseph Farrington (1747-1821)
Title: A Horse’s Head
Date: 1777
School: British, British XVIIIth century
Medium: mezzotint, stipple and etching
Dimensions: 296 x 185mm (plate), 400 x 280mm (support)
Watermark: none
Inscriptions/marks: none
Condition: good condition of a proof state before letters printed in brown ink on wove paper with wide margins. The lettered states were printed in darker ink with stronger contrasts. See the BM’s impression Kk,4.44.
Description: the upper half of a rearing horse seen from the front
Reference: published by John Boydell as plate 42 of vol. 1 of the ‘Houghton Gallery’, 1777. See Gregory Rubinstein, ‘Richard Earlom (1743-1822) and Boydell’s Houghton Gallery’, Print Quarterly, vol. VIII, no. 1, March 1991, pp. 2-27.
Provenance: Grosvenor Prints, London, 2022
