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British Museum (Museum number 2006,U.1122) / https://research.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collectio…IMAGE INFORMATION

Une tete à la plume d'après Mantegna
Trans.: A head in pen and ink after Mantegna

Object Status:

Unlocated

Accession Date:

November 1765

Primary Source Reference:

Du Simitière Scraps, Library Company of Philadelphia, no. 96, 2

Additional Source Text:

"Gravé dans la même maniere & les mêmes couleurs que les dessein originaux par Arthur Pond"

Trans.: engraved in the same manner and in the same colors as the original design by Arthur Pond

Notes:

Etching by Arthur Pond (1701-1758), after Andrea Mantegna (ca. 1431-1506), Head and shoulders of an unidentified man, in profile to right, a shadow on the right, from the series "Prints in Imitation of Drawings" (1735)

No. 47 in Henry M. Hake, "Pond’s and Knapton’s Imitations of Drawing," Print Collector’s Quarterly, vol. 9, no. 4 (1922): 324-349