Josiah Boydell

Josiah Boydell is represented in this archive by a single sheet: an etching and mezzotint portrait of the Anabaptist minister Regnier Hansloe together with his wife, depicting the Amsterdam Mennonite merchant Cornelis Claesz Anslo and Aeltje Gerritsdr Schouten. The plate belongs to a late eighteenth-century tradition of reproductive printmaking, in which painters' compositions were translated into tone-rich mezzotint and finished with etched line. This collection holds one such impression, the second state of two, dated 1781.

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Regnier Hansloe, an Anabaptist Minister, and His Wife (Cornelis Claesz Anslo and His Wife Aeltje Gerritsdr Schouten)

May 1, 1781 · Etching and mezzotint; second state of two