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This print is based on a self-portrait by Joshua Reynolds painted ca. 1788 and the subject is shown at half-length, wearing spectacles and extending one arm. The print may have been published in 1789 to accompany bound copies of Reynolds's "Discourse" delivered on December 10, 1788. It reissued as a frontispiece for a 1797 edition of Reynolds's "Works."
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Title: Sir Joshua Reynolds
Engraver:
Caroline Watson (British, London 1760/61–1814 London)
Artist:
After Sir Joshua Reynolds (British, Plympton 1723–1792 London)
Publisher:
Thomas Cadell the Elder (British, Bristol 1742–1802 London)
Sitter:
Sir Joshua Reynolds (British, Plympton 1723–1792 London)
Published in: London
Date: 1789
Medium: Stipple and mezzotint with some etching
Dimensions:
Image: 5 1/8 × 4 1/8 in. (13 × 10.5 cm)
Plate: 8 3/4 × 5 13/16 in. (22.3 × 14.7 cm)
Sheet: 10 1/8 × 7 1/2 in. (25.7 × 19 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit Line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917
Accession Number: 17.3.756-2031
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