
Three Persons Viewing the Gladiator by Candlelight
Mary S. Adams, William McCallin McKee Memorial and Print and Drawing Anonymous Funds
Catalogue
- Year
- 1769
- Dimensions
- 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.)
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Artist
- William Pether
Artist

William Pether was primarily an English mezzotint engraver, but also decorated porcelain, made oil paintings and pastel drawings, and invented gadgets.
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The Rabbi
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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
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Herdsmen, Cows and Sheep in Landscape
1751 · Black crayon, with stumping, and brush and gray wash, over traces of graphite, on cream wove card
Portret van Tiberius Hemsterhuis
1741 · paper
Koning Uzziah geteisterd door melaatsheid
1741 · paper
Record
Verified by WattsOS- Artist
- William Pether
- Year
- 1769
- Dimensions
- 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.)
- Watts ID
- WW-1769-527086
Source
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Source
- aic
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified




