Queen Anne of Great Britain. Mezzotint by J. Simon after C. Boit.

  • Boit, Charles, 1662-1727.
Date:
[between 1700 and 1709?]
Reference:
2143662i
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Description

Queen Anne, half length in oval, directed to right, wearing pearl necklace and the George. In this state of the print, a portrait after Edmund Lilly is said to be replaced by one after a detail of Boit's miniature group portrait of Queen Anne and Prince George of Denmark (Ingamells, loc. cit.)

Publication/Creation

[London] : E. Cooper, [between 1700 and 1709?]

Physical description

1 print : mezzotint ; image 29 x 24.5 cm

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Lettering

Serenissima Anna Dei gr. mag. Brit. Fran: et Hib: regina &c. ... Done after the last large picture in enamill for his Royal Highness by Mr Charles Boit. Simon fecit

Edition

[Chaloner Smith's state II of two, in which ].

References note

Freeman O'Donoghue, Catalogue of engraved British portraits preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, London 1908, vol. 1, no. 18
J. Ingamells, National Portrait Gallery later Stuart portraits, 1685-1714, London 2009, p. 12-13
John Chaloner Smith, British mezzotinto portraits, vol. 3, London 1883, p. 1064, Simon no. 9

Reference

Wellcome Collection 2143662i

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