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Patrick Begbie

Chandelier, 1779

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series Title

Vases after the Manner of the Antique

Medium

etching and aquatint printed in red on laid paper and laid down

Dimensions

plate: 15.6 x 10.5 cm (6 1/8 x 4 1/8 in.)

sheet: 16.9 x 11.8 cm (6 5/8 x 4 5/8 in.)

Credit Line

Katherine Shepard Fund

Accession Number

2007.47.2

Artists / Makers

Patrick Begbie (artist) British, 18th century

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Inscription

lower center in plate: Published as the Act Directs Feby 18 1779; lower right in plate: Begbie inc. et Sc

Provenance

(Christopher Mendez, London); purchased by NGA, 2007.

Associated Names

Mendez, Christopher

Bibliography

2021: Hoisington, Rena. Aquatint: From Its Origins to Goya. Washington, 2021: 179, fig. 6.

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