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Don Balthazar Carlos

Print
1 January 1784 (published)
Artist/Maker
Earlom, Richard (engraver)
Boydell, John (publisher)
Velázquez, Diego (artist)
Place of origin
London (published)

Portrait, when a child, full-length, on horseback, facing half left.


Object details

Categories
Prints
Portraits
Royalty
Object type
Print
TitleDon Balthazar Carlos (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Mezzotint
Mezzotint
Brief description
Print, portrait of Don Balthazar Carlos, when a child, mezzotint by Richard Earlom after Diego Velázquez, 1784.
Physical description
Portrait, when a child, full-length, on horseback, facing half left.
Dimensions
  • Height: 42.2cm
  • Width: 32.7cm
Dimensions taken from Victoria & Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1959. London: HMSO, 1964.
Style
Baroque
Marks and inscriptions
' Velasques Pinxit. Richd. Earlom Sculpsit. John Boydell excudit London 1784. Published Jany 1st 1784 by John Boydell Engraver in Cheapside London.' (Lettered with name of sitter and descriptive text in English and Spanish and)
Credit line
Given by Mrs. E. B. Westwood
Subjects depicted
Horse
Carlos, Balthazar (Don)
Bibliographic references
  • Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1959 . London: HMSO, 1964.
  • Smith, John Chaloner. British Mezzotinto Portraits. London: Henry Sotheran & Co., 1883.
  • Wessely, Joseph Edward. Richard Earlom. Hamburg: Haendcke & Lehmkuhl, 1886. 1 p.l., viii, 94 p.
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.330-1959

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
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