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William Pether

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Smithsonianhttps://www.si.edu/object/npg_NPG.2013.138
Tier 1 · Institutional90%

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William Pether was primarily an English mezzotint engraver, but also decorated porcelain, made oil paintings and pastel drawings, and invented gadgets.

Source: Smithsonian Institution · Trust score: 90% · Updated 1mo ago

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Artworks (7)

The Rabbi

1778 · Mezzotint on ivory laid paper

Image: 45.7 × 35.4 cm (18 × 13 15/16 in.); Plate: 50.8 × 35.5 cm (20 × 14 in.); Sheet: 55.3 × 39.5 cm (21 13/16 × 15 9/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Democritus and Protagoras

1778 · Mezzotint in black on paper

Image: 50.4 × 35.2 cm (19 7/8 × 13 7/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

The Alchymist, in Search of the Philosopher's Stone, Discovers Phosphorus, and Prays for the Successful Conclusion of his Operation, as was the Custom of the Ancient Chymical Astrologers

1775 · mezzotint

Image: 56.1 x 45.5 cm (22 1/16 x 17 15/16 in.); Plate: 58 x 45.6 cm (22 13/16 x 17 15/16 in.); Sheet: 64.6 x 50.7 cm (25 7/16 x 19 15/16 in.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

Three Persons Viewing the Gladiator by Candlelight

1769 · Mezzotint in black on off-white laid paper

Image/plate: 48.2 × 55.5 cm (19 × 21 7/8 in.); Sheet: 48.9 × 56.5 cm (19 5/16 × 22 1/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Herdsmen, Cows and Sheep in Landscape

1751 · Black crayon, with stumping, and brush and gray wash, over traces of graphite, on cream wove card

18.4 × 20.4 cm (7 1/4 × 8 1/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Portret van Tiberius Hemsterhuis

1741 · paper

width: 251 cm, height: 352 cm

Rijksmuseum

Koning Uzziah geteisterd door melaatsheid

1741 · paper

width: 251 cm, height: 351 cm

Rijksmuseum

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7 published of 7 catalogued · 7 with image

Art Institute Chicago
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Rijksmuseum
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Cleveland Museum of Art
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The Alchymist, in Search of the Philosopher's Stone, Discovers Phosphorus, and Prays for the Successful Conclusion of his Operation, as was the Custom of the Ancient Chymical Astrologers
1775 · Cleveland · 1 prov
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