Angelica Kauffmann, 1741–1807, Swiss, active in Britain (1766–81)
Title:
Self Portrait
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Black chalk on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 7 7/8 × 6 5/8 inches (20 × 16.8 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite on verso: "note - Done at Judge Hellen's House Mespil/ Bank Dublin, and given to me by/ my aunt (by marriage) Hannah Beard/ adapted niece of Mrs. Dorthea Mansergh/ of Athy. / Thomas Beard/ Bungay April 6th 1894."
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1977.14.5552
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
portrait
Currently On View:
Not on view
Publications:
Susan Rather, The American school : artists and status in the late-colonial and early national era, Yale University Press, New Haven, 2016, pp. 110, 111, fig. 92, N6507 .R38 2016 (YCBA)