Accession number
PML198990.1-20
Creator
Baillie, William, 1723-1810, printmaker.
Published
Great Britain, [17--]
Notes
Title from manuscript title page.
Collection of 19 prints by Captain William Baillie and a single print by John Greenwood (1727-1792), with a title page hand lettered in ink reading: Collection of prints and etchings by William Baillie & others.
Individual prints comprising the collection have been cataloged separately.
Prints mounted on backing sheets and housed in blue linen clamshell box measuring 40.7 x 29.7 cm, with spine label: Collection of prints and etchings William Baillie 1723-1810.
Collection of 19 prints by Captain William Baillie and a single print by John Greenwood (1727-1792), with a title page hand lettered in ink reading: Collection of prints and etchings by William Baillie & others.
Individual prints comprising the collection have been cataloged separately.
Prints mounted on backing sheets and housed in blue linen clamshell box measuring 40.7 x 29.7 cm, with spine label: Collection of prints and etchings William Baillie 1723-1810.
Description
20 prints : etching, stipple and line engraving, drypoint, and mezzotint ; various
Summary
A collection of intaglio prints by Irish engraver Captain William Baillie, along with a mezzotint portrait of Michiel Elgersma by John Greenwood (PML198990.11); the collection chiefly includes reproductions of prints by Rembrandt, Gerard Dou, Caspar Netscher, Gerard ter Borch, Adriaen van Ostade, Frederico Zuccaro, Rubens, and David Teniers, as well as a self portrait of Baillie and a few examples of prints executed by him after his own designs. Also included is an impression of the right hand section of Rembrandt's "Hundred guilder" print, the original plate having been acquired by Capt William Baillie in 1775, extensively reworked, and later cut up into four sections, with impressions printed separately by Baillie from the individual pieces of the quartered plate. Some prints are printed in red and black and the collection includes proof impressions before letters.
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