Portrait of Nell Gwyn as a Shedherdess Garlanding a Lamb

Prints and Drawings

c. 1678

Herman Hendrik Quiter (German, 1628-1708)
after Peter Lely (Dutch, active in England, 1618–1680)

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Herman Hendrik Quiter
Title: Portrait of Nell Gwyn as a Shedherdess Garlanding a Lamb
Place: Germany (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1673–1683
Medium: Mezzotint in black on blue laid paper
Inscriptions: Inscribed verso, center in graphite: "P 108..."; lower left, in brown ink: "N. 190301"; lower right, in brown ink: "J / 4"; lower right in brown ink: "3 / 2"
Dimensions: Image/sheet, trimmed within platemark: 34.5 × 24.4 cm (13 5/8 × 9 5/8 in.)
Credit Line: Purchased with funds provided by Anne Searle Bent
Reference Number: 2015.294
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The Art Institute of Chicago, “Van Dyck, Rembrandt and the Portrait Print”, March 5 - August 7, 2016, p. 15, 17, fig. 2 (ill.), cat. 105, cat. by Victoria Sancho Lobis and Maureen Warren.

Joseph Gulston (1745–1786), Middlesex, England [his manuscript (Lugt 1113), verso, lower left, in pen and black ink]. Sold by Christopher Mendez, London, to the Art Institute, 2015.

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