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The Right Honorable Lord Pigot Governor of Madras (Primary Title)

George Stubbs, English, 1724 - 1806 (Artist)

Educational
1777
English
Prints
Works On Paper
Mezzotint on laid paper
Mellon Collection
Sheet: 19 1/16 × 24 3/4 in. (48.42 × 62.87 cm)
Plate: 18 1/4 × 22 in. (46.36 × 55.88 cm)
Image: 16 13/16 × 22 in. (42.7 × 55.88 cm)
Mat: 25 × 33 in. (63.5 × 83.82 cm)
85.1412
Not on view
Printed beneath image, lower left: "George Stubbs Pinxt."; lower right: "Benjamin Green fecit."; lower center: "The Right Honourable LORD PIGOT Governor of Madrass, &c. &c. &c./ Done from an ORIGINAL PICTURE in his Lordships Collection./ London, Printed for R. Sayer & J. Bennett No. 53 in Fleet Street, as the Act directs 10 Jany. 1777." Inscribed in graphite on verso: "Ackermann June 70" (?) and "Proof before letters is in Sporting/ Print section/ This poor impression not to be mounted/ and placed with ordinary series under Stubbs" (?)
Paul Mellon Collection
Image released via Creative Commons CC-BY-NC

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