Francois Vivares, 1709–1780, French, A View of Hopping Mill, Ware, 1745
- Title:
- A View of Hopping Mill, Ware
- Date:
- 1745
- Materials & Techniques:
- Colored engraving on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 15 9/16 × 21 3/4 inches (39.5 × 55.2 cm), Image: 14 3/16 × 20 3/4 inches (36 × 52.7 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, verso, lower right: "15 1/4 x 21 1/8 | R4946"
Lettered, lower center: A VIEW of Hopping Hill Ware | On ye River Derwent (four Miles North of Derby) belonging to his Grace the Duke of Devonshire, to whom this Plate is humbly inscrib'd by his Graces | most Dutiful & most obed't Srvt. | J. Smith."; lettered, lower left: "J.Smith Pinx."; lettered, lower right: "F.Vivares Sculp. | 3 | Publishd Augt. 25 1745"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1977.14.13132
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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Matthew Craske, Joseph Wright of Derby : Painter of darkness, The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, New Haven, 2020, pp. 17-19, fig. 11, NJ18.W95 C72 2020+ (YCBA) [YCBA]
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