Richard Earlom, 1743–1822, Britishafter Johan Joseph Zoffany, 1733–1810, German, active in Britain (from 1760)
Title:
Embassy of Hyderbeck to Calcutta
Date:
1800
Materials & Techniques:
Stipple engraving and mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 19 7/8 x 26 1/4 inches (50.5 x 66.7 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, lower left: "<John Zoffany>"; on back, upper right: "80/71"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1985.36.1303
Classification:
Prints
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
carrying | horse (animal) | howdah | natives | walking | soldier | women | men | children | travel | grain elevator | caravan | ladder | spears | baskets | chair | ruins | embassy | flag | historical subject | landscape
Associated Places:
India | West Bengal | Patna | Asia
Currently On View:
Not on view
Publications:
Mildred Archer, India and British Portraiture, 1770-1825, Sotheby Parke Bernet, London, 1979, pp.173-76, fig. 109, ND 1327 I44 A72 (YCBA)John Chaloner Smith, British mezzotinto portraits, being a descriptive catalogue of these engravings from the introduction of the art to the early part of the present century : arranged according to the engravers, the inscriptions given at full length, and the variations of state precisely set forth : acc , Martino Pub., Mansfield Centre, CT, 2004, v.1, pp. 260-61, Earlom no. 49, NE1816.G7 S58 2004Dudley Snelgrove, British Sporting and Animal Prints 1658-1874: A Catalogue, The Paul Mellon Collection , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1981, NE960.3 G7 B75 + Oversize (Mellon Shelf) (YCBA)Mary Webster, Johan Zoffany, 1733-1810, National Portrait Gallery, London, 1976, p. 85, no. 114, NJ18 Z68 W43 (YCBA)