2018.90: Gimcrack

Identification and Creation

Object Number

2018.90

People

George Townley Stubbs, British (Liverpool 1756 - 1815 London)
After George Stubbs, British (Liverpool 1724 - 1806 London)
Published by Henry Bryer, British (active 1765 - 1775)

Title

Gimcrack

Classification

Prints

Work Type

print

Date

March 1, 1775

Culture

British

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/213365

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Mezzotint on off-white laid paper

Technique

Mezzotint

Dimensions

plate: 27.4 x 37.8 cm (10 13/16 x 14 7/8 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: lower left, in plate: G: Stubbs pinxit.
• inscription: lower right, in plate: G: T. Stubbs Sculp.
• inscription: lower center, in plate: GIMCRACK. / from the property of Lord Grosvenor was got by Cripple his Dam by Grieswood's Partner his Grandam by old Spot, his great Grandam by the Chesnut white leg'dlonther Barb, out of the Old Nintner Mare. Gimcrack covers / at Oxcroft Farm, near Balsham and West Wratting, Cambridgeshire, at thirty Guineas a Mare and five Shillings the Groom. Publish'd as the Act directs, March 1st, 1775, and Sold by H: Bryer, Cornhill.
• inscription: verso, lower right, graphite: 97
• collector's mark: verso, lower right, blue ink: outline of a cat's head [graphite, inside of outline:] 97 [mark of Marjorie B. Cohn]
• watermark: lower center: [unidentified]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

[Sotheby's, London, November 13, 1997, lot 524]. [C. G. Boerner, New York and Düsseldorf], sold; to Marjorie B. and Martin Cohn, 1997, gift; to Harvard Art Museums, 2018

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State

i/ii

Standard Reference Number

Lennox-Boyd 44

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Marjorie B. and Martin Cohn in honor of Barbara K. Wheaton

Accession Year

2018

Object Number

2018.90

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Descriptions

Commentary

The print is after a painting by George Stubbs, the printmaker's father, dated 1770 and now in the Grosvenor Collection. The print was made as an advertisement of the availability of the stallion at stud.

Publication History

• Christopher Lennox-Boyd, Rob Dixon, and Tim Clayton, George Stubbs: The Complete Engraved Works, Stipple Publishing Ltd. (Abingdon, 1989), p. 152, no. 44 [related bibliography, not Harvard impression]
• An Eighteenth Century Collection of British Prints, auct. cat., Sotheby's, London (London, November 13, 1997), p. 21, lot 524, repr.

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