Masters in Mezzotint: Color Prints by S. Arlent Edwards

Exhibit Space: 
Charles Marvin Fairchild Memorial Gallery
Start Date: 
November 6, 2003
End Date: 
February 2, 2004

Anne of Cleves
Published January 1908
plate size 18 ½ x 12 ½"

original painting c. 1538-39, by Hans Holbein (1497/8 - 1543)
Louvre, Paris

Plate defaced April 18, 1908
K 61; B 58

Jester with a Lute
Published September 28, 1909
plate size 13 ¾ x 11 ¾"

original painting c. 1620-25, by Frans Hals (1582/83 - 1666)
Louvre, Paris

Plate defaced November 1, 1909
K 65; B 66

Girl With a Pearl Earring
Published after 1918
plate size 13 ½ x 10 ½"

original painting c. 1665, by Johannes Vermeer (1632 - 1675)
Mauritshuis, The Hague

Portrait of an Old Woman Plucking a Fowl, "Rembrandt's Mother"
Published 1900
plate size 16 x 12"

original painting once attributed to Rembrandt Van Rijn (1606 - 1669)
The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

Plate defaced August 19, 1907
K 64; B 45

Portrait of a Lady, "La Belle Ferronniere"
Published September 10, 1906
plate size 14 ½ x 12 ¼ "

original painting c. 1490-95, by Leonardo da Vinci (1452 - 1519)
Louvre, Paris

Plate defaced November 1, 1906
K 35; B 37

A Visit to the Boarding School
Published 1901
plate size 21 ½ x 17 ¼ "

original painting 1789, by George Morland (1763 - 1804)
Wallace Collection, London

Plate defaced January 1, 1908
K 22; B 57

Mrs. Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Published 1901
plate size 9 x 8"

original painting 1785-87, by Thomas Gainsborough (1727 - 1788)
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Plate defaced March 1905
K 44; B15

The Blue Boy (Jonathan Buttall)
Published September 1901
plate size 13 ¾ x 7"

original painting c. 1770, by Thomas Gainsborough (1727 - 1788)
Huntington Library, San Marino, California

Plate defaced 1903
K 13; B 7

Portrait of S. Arlent Edwards
15 ½ x 13 5/8 "

oil on wood panel, c. 1900, by Charles F. Naegele (1857 - 1944)

On loan from Sam Edwards

Emma (Lady Hamilton)
Published 1904
plate size 13 x 10"

original painting c. 1782 - 84, by George Romney (1734 - 1802)
Huntington Library, San Marino, California

Plate defaced March 1906
K 4; B 24

The Fortune Teller
Published 1901
plate size 17 x 18 ½"

original painting 1777, by Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723 - 1792)
Waddeson Manor, The National Trust, U.K.

Plate defaced November 18, 1907
K 59; B 52

Madame Adelaide as Diana
Published 1902
plate size 17 x 11 ½"

original painting 1745, by Jean-Marc Nattier (1685 - 1766)
Musée National de Château de Versailles;
copy in Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence

Plate defaced September 1905
K 26; B19

The Shepherdess Sleeping
Published c. 1913
plate size 16 ¾ x 22 ½"

original painting 1743, by François Boucher (1703 - 1770)
Louvre, Paris

Madame Henrietta as Flora
Published 1902
plate size 17 x 11 ½"

original painting 1742, by Jean-Marc Nattier (1685 - 1766)
Musée National de Château de Versailles;
copy in Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence

Plate defaced September 1905
K 27; B 20

Le Dauphin
Published 1904
plate size 9 x 5 ½"

detail of Queen Marie Antoinette and Her Children,
original painting 1787, by Louise-Elizabeth Vigée Lebrun (1755 - 1842)
Musée National de Château de Versailles

Plate defaced December 1907
K 31; B 54

Madame Recamier
Published after 1918
plate size 13 x 10" (oval)

detail of 1805 painting, by François-Pascal-Simon Gérard (1770 - 1837)
Louvre, Paris

Girl with Doves, "Sympathy"
Published 1904
plate size 15 ½ x 12 ½"

original painting c. 1800, by Jean-Baptiste Greuze (1725 - 1805)
Wallace Collection, London

Plate defaced August 1906
K 29; B 31

S. Arlent Edwards' Printmaking Tools

scraper, etching needle, rocker, tool handle, burnisher, wood pencil, fountain pen, spatula

On loan from Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of American History, Behring Center

Portrait of S. Arlent Edwards
8 x 6 ¼ "

pencil on paper, 1916, by Angelo Zeyer (1878 - 1945)

On loan from Sam Edwards

Portrait of a Woman, "Lucrezia Tuornaboni"
Published March 2, 1912
plate size 15 x 12"

original painting early- to mid-1480s, by Botticelli workshop
Städelsches Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt am Main

Plate defaced same date
K 73; B 73

Portrait of a Woman, "Elvira"
Published March 2, 1908
plate size 16 x 11"

original painting c. 1470, by Piero del Pollaiolo (1443 - 1496)
Museo Poldi Pezzoli, Milan

Plate defaced April 18, 1908
K 62; B 59

Portrait of a Woman
Published February 14, 1913
plate size 14 ½ x 11 ½"

original painting c. 1435, by Rogier Van der Weyden (c. 1399 - 1464)
Staatliche Museen, Berlin

Plate defaced same date
K 77; B 76

Head of the Madonna
Published 1902
plate size 18 x 13"

detail of Virgin and Child with Saint John the Baptist and an Angel
original painting c. 1490, by Botticelli workshop
National Gallery, London

Plate defaced December 1, 1904
K 34; B 12

Copper Plate: Head of the Madonna

On loan from Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of American History, Behring Center

Margarethe van Eyck
Published February 18, 1911
plate size 14 x 11 ¾ "

original painting 1439, by Jan van Eyck (c. 1395 - 1441)
Groeningemuseum, Bruges

Plate defaced December 20, 1911
K 71; B 70

Martin Van Nieuwenhove
Published January 2, 1912
plate size 16 ¼ x 11 ¾ "

detail of the Nieuwenhove diptych
original painting 1487, by Hans Memling (1430/40 - 1494)
Memlingmuseum, Sint-Janshospitaal, Bruges

Plate defaced same date
K 72; B 72

Head of the Madonna
Published 1921 or 1922
plate size 18 ½ x 13 ¾ "

detail of the Virgin and Child with Five Angels, "Madonna del Magnificat"
original painting c. 1480-81, by Sandro Botticelli (1444/5 - 1510)
Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence