Portret van Elizabeth Montagu en haar zoon George als Diana en Cupido, James Watson (prentmaker), after Joshua Reynolds, c. 1769

Title(s)

Portret van Elizabeth Montagu en haar zoon George als Diana en Cupido

Object type

• print

Object number

RP-P-OB-33.765

Catalogue reference

• Aantal staten bekend-3(3)
  Remark: Russell, 1926.
• Chaloner Smith 97

Inscriptions / marks

• collector's mark: Lugt 240

Description

Elizabeth Montagu, als Diana, steelt de boog van haar zoon als Cupido.

Artist

• print maker: James Watson (prentmaker) (mentioned on object)
• after painting by: Joshua Reynolds (mentioned on object)
• publisher: Robert Sayer (mentioned on object)

Place

London

Dating

c. 1769

Material

• paper

Measurements

height 618 mm × width 410 mm

What

• historical persons - BB - woman
• historical persons
• mother and son(s) (family group)
• (story of) Cupid, Amor (Eros)
• (story of) Diana (Artemis)

Who

• George Montagu (burggraaf Mandeville)
• Elizabeth Montagu (hertogin van Manchester)

Acquisition

transferred 1816

Copyright

Public domain

• English mezzotint portraits and their states from the invention of mezzotinting until the early part of the 19th century, dl. 2, p. 389, cat.nr. 97-III
• British Mezzotinters : Thomas Watson, James Watson, Elisabeth Judkins, cat.nr. 45-III
• British mezzotints portraits : being a descriptive catalogue of these engravings from the introduction of the art to the early part of the present century, dl. 4, p. 1523, cat.nr. 97