Portrait of Cornelius De Witt, Burgomaster of Dordt

Caspar Netscher, William Baillie1774

Details

Title: Portrait of Cornelius De Witt, Burgomaster of Dordt
Creator: William Baillie after Caspar Netscher
Date Created: 1774
Subject Keywords: male portraits, portraits
Signatures / Inscriptions: Signed in plate, lower right: “W. Baillie sc. June 17th 1774”
Object Type: Prints, works of art
Object Link: See this artwork on the Davison Art Center website
Object Credit Line: Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University. Gift of John deKoven Alsop, 1986
Materials & Techniques: Mezzotint on wove paper
Image Credit Line: Open Access Image from the Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University (http://www.wesleyan.edu/dac/openaccess)
Edition: From “Boydell’s Heads of Illustrious and Celebrated Persons” (London, Boydell & Co., Cheapside, 1811), facing p. 51; the portrait was accompanied in this publication by a biography of Cornelius De Witt’s brother, John, in error
Dimensions: 1810
Associated People: Created by William Baillie (British (English), 1723-1810), After Caspar Netscher (Dutch, 1639-1684)
Accession Number: 1986.36.1

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