[Mezzotint portrait] John Smith (1652-1743). (Portrait of Peter the Great)

Mezzotint after Sir Godfrey Kneller, c. 1698, 40.7 x 27.8 cm, signed "I. Smith Fecit et excudit" in lower right corner in the plate.

Very good impression and copy, on laid paper with unidentified watermark (two initials); vague central horizontal fold. Muller, Portretten, 4151 a ("Woont van 1696 tot 1699 in Holland"; "Op bevel van Willem III geschilderd door G. Kneller"); Chaloner Smith 1883, British Mezzotinto portraits from the introduction of the art to the early part of the present century (217.III).