Print made by Benjamin Smith, 1775–1833, British, Sigismonda, 1795
- Title:
- Sigismonda
- Date:
- 1795
- Materials & Techniques:
- Etching with aquatint
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 19 × 25 inches (48.3 × 63.5 cm), Plate: 16 1/4 × 17 5/8 inches (41.3 × 44.8 cm), Image: 13 × 16 1/2 inches (33 × 41.9 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, lower right: "172"
Lettered below image: "Painted by Will'm Hogarth. | Engraved by Benj'n Smith. | SIGISMONDA. | From the Original Picture in the Collection of Ald'n Boydell. | 'Let the picture rust, | Perhaps, Time's price enhancing dust, | As statues moulder into earth, | When I'm no more may mark its worth. | And future connoiseurs may rise, | Honest as ours, and full as wise, | To puff the piece and painter too, | And make me then what Guido's now. | Hogarth's Epistle. | Size of the Picture, 3 F't 3 I'n high by 4 F't 2 I'n long. | Published June 4, 1792, by J. & J. Boydell, at No. 90 Cheapside; & at the Shakespeare Gallery, Pall Mall."
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art,Gift of Suzanne and William H. Speaker
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B2019.24.63
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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