The Virgin of the Immaculate Conception (after Maratta)
Jakob Frey the Elder (1681 - 1752)
Category
Art / Prints
Date
c. 1700 - 1750
Materials
Hand-coloured etching and engraving on paper
Measurements
450 x 433 x 35 mm
Place of origin
Rome
Order this imageCollection
Stourhead, Wiltshire
NT 730906
Summary
Hand-coloured etching and engraving, The Virgin of the Immaculate Conception, Jakob (Jacob) Frey (1681-1752) after Carlo Maratta (Camerano 1625 – Rome 1713), circa 1700-1750, hand-coloured by Jacob van Lint (1723 - 1790) or Hendrik Frans van Lint, Rome, Italy, 1759-1762. One version of the original is in San Isidoro, Rome.
Provenance
Commissioned by Henry Hoare II, called 'the Magnificent' (1705-1785). Listed in a price list accompanying a letter from John Plimmer to Hoare, 9 June 1759 (WSA, 383.907). Listed in an undated bill (WSA, 38304.253). Listed in 'The Catalogue or Particulars of the Pictures Prints Statues and other Things' attached to the Stourhead Settlement, 1784, attributed to 'Studio' (see Dodd, 2016) (WSA, 383.715). Thence by descent. Bequeathed by Sir Henry Hugh Arthur Hoare, 6th Bt (1865 – 1947), 1946.
Makers and roles
Jakob Frey the Elder (1681 - 1752), printer Carlo Maratta (Camerano 1625 – Rome 1713), original artist Hendrik Frans van Lint, colourist Jacob van Lint (1723 - 1790), colourist