The Metropolitan Museum of Art - The Sculptor [Preparations for the Academy, Old Joseph Nollekens and his Venus]

The Sculptor [Preparations for the Academy, Old Joseph Nollekens and his Venus]

Sitter:: Joseph Nollekens (British, London 1737–1823 London)
Date:: ca. 1800
Medium:: Hand-colored etching
Dimensions:: sheet: 11 1/4 x 8 9/16 in. (28.5 x 21.8 cm)
Classification:: Prints
Credit Line:: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1959
Accession Number:: 59.533.566

This artwork is not on display

Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings

Signature: in plate: "Rowlandson inv."
Provenance

Francis Harvey (British, active by 1859–died 1899); C. W. Dyson Perrins(sale Sotheby's Jan. 12, 1959); Vendor: Sotheby's, London Jan. 12, 1959
Catalogue Raisonné

Grego, Rowlandson II.16-18 and 396 (as Preparations...); British Museum Satires VII.9572
References

John J. McKendry "Antiquity Smith". The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 20, February 1962, fig. no. 3, ill.

Nadine Orenstein, Constance C. McPhee Infinite Jest: Caricature and Satire from Leonardo to Levine. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New Haven and London, 2011, cat. no. 96, 130, ill.
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