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The Stallion (Primary Title)

Jacques-Laurent Agasse, Swiss, 1767–1849 (Artist)

1823 or 1825
English
Prints
Works On Paper
Hand-colored etching with aquatint on wove paper with a watermark: J WHATMAN / TURKEY MILL / [partial date, possibly 1823
European Art
Sheet: 10 11/16 × 12 1/2 in. (27.15 × 31.75 cm)
Plate: 9 7/8 × 11 7/8 in. (25.08 × 30.16 cm)
Image: 8 1/8 × 11 3/16 in. (20.64 × 28.42 cm)
Other (matted): 16 × 22 in. (40.64 × 55.88 cm)
85.1297.2
Not on view
Blue stamp on verso: Paul Mellon Collection
Printed beneath image in center: "Turner fecit / THE STALLION/ Published Novr. 16th 182[3 or 5] by Wm. Thompson. Carver, & Gilder St. Aldates, Oxford." (Text is weakly impressed and difficult to read.) Inscribed in graphite on verso: "19083", "914", "J. L. Agasse / unrecorded", "C" (in circle), and "8"
Paul Mellon Collection
Image released via Creative Commons CC-BY-NC

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