Title Page, 1779

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series Title

Vases after the Manner of the Antique

Medium

etching and aquatint printed in red on laid paper, laid down on an album sheet

Dimensions

plate: 15.3 x 16.5 cm (6 x 6 1/2 in.)

sheet: 11.6 x 12 cm (4 9/16 x 4 3/4 in.)

Credit Line

Katherine Shepard Fund

Accession Number

2007.47.1

Artists / Makers

Patrick Begbie (artist) British, 18th century

Image Use

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Inscription

lower center of plate: VASES / AFTER / THE MANNER / OF THE / ANTIQUE / BY P. BEGBIE / DUKES COURT / ST. MARTINS LANE / MDCCLXXIX; lower left in plate: Published as the Act Directs Feb.y. 18 1779

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Mendez, Christopher