What shall we say of mezzotint engraving, for instance, in which, though indeed furrows and cavities are produced mechanically as a ground, the artist's work is in effacing them?
Mezzotint is properly to be considered as chiaroscuro drawing on metal.
Her father, George Raphael Ward, a mezzotint engraver and miniature painter, also married an artist who was an extremely clever miniature painter.
Holl had discarded his pathetic subjects for portraits, and surprised the art world with a vigorous canvas of the celebrated mezzotint engraver, Samuel Cousins, which was followed by an equally strong portrait of Piatti the violoncello player.
William Ward, themezzotint engraver, whose works are fetching great sums to-day, encouraged his younger brother, and James held to his decision.
A New Edition incorporating the author's own notes additions and emendations With Portrait and Twenty-four Steel and Mezzotint Engravings also numerous engravings on wood London John C.
Included are a fine mezzotintof Samuel Butler and Caroline Watson's engraving of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu.
A number of fine proof plates, coloured and mezzotint engravings have been added.
Fourth edition incorporating the author's latest notes additions and emendations With Eight Mezzotint Engravings and Five Illustrations in Colour engraved from the Original Water-Colour Sketches also numerous engravings on wood London John C.
British Mezzotint Portraits; being a descriptive catalogue of these engravings from the Introduction of the Art to the early part of the present Century.
A delicate suggestive mezzotint shaded the edges of his collar and cuffs, and from his heavy gold watch- chain depended a malachite seal of unusual greenness and brilliancy.
John Harrington was a high light against the mezzotint of his surroundings.
After a mezzotint in the Library of the American Antiquarian Society.
Appeal to Heaven", which is reproduced in Smith's British Mezzotint Portraits, and the engraving by G.
There was a picture made late in life by John Johnson, which has been destroyed; but from a mezzotint of it, made in 1797 by Graham, H.
June, 1791; it was also engraved inmezzotint by John Jones.
John Collins Warren, of Boston, which has been often engraved, and is given in mezzotint by H.
Copied from a mezzotint engraving in the American Antiquarian Society's possession, marked "Richard Jennys, jun.
Mezzotint Portraits, and in the United Service (xii.
Mitchell, and from this a mezzotint by Samuel Okey was issued at Newport in 1775.
A mezzotint similar to this was published in London, 1776, as "Col.
A Literary Offering for all seasons, illustrated with 8 fine steel mezzotintengravings by the first artists.
An elegant quarto volume, printed in superb style, and embellished with 13 elegant steelmezzotint engravings.
Under the mezzotint hung Hoppner's miniature of that lovely and ill-starred girl, with her soft dark eyes, and her curls all astray from beneath her little blue turban.
Could the diners have seen him, they would have known him by his resemblance to the mezzotint portrait that hung on the wall above him.
Hogarth's was on the east), lived Edward Fisher, the mezzotint engraver, to whom we owe so many brilliant plates after Reynolds.
It was a composition in clay of the Four Seasons, reproduced in bas-relief from the mezzotint in the vicar's portfolio, over which he now at once remembered Colin had so often and so constantly lingered.
You will see that it is composed of a firm etching in line, with mezzotint shadow laid over it.
They vary considerably in treatment, some being carefully rendered, while those reproduced with the mezzotint shading are very broadly and vigorously executed by means of a soft lead-pencil, the lights heightened with chinese-white.
Wagstaffe in 1843; the third (now in South Kensington Museum) was reproduced in mezzotint by S.
Sir John Fielding From a mezzotint of a painting by Nathaniel Hone, R.
Anne Oldfield From a mezzotint of a painting by J.
Kitty Clive as Philida From a mezzotint of a painting by Veter van Bleeck, junr.
Lisbon--1793 From a mezzotint of a drawing by Noel.
Mr. William Slade, an Assistant, presented a mezzotintengraving of the portrait of John Paterson, Esq.
An excellent mezzotint portrait of Mr. Paterson, with some eulogistic lines below, is preserved at Barbers’ Hall.
Baring-Gould JOHN COUCH ADAMS 84 From a mezzotint by Samuel Cousins, A.
When completed, the painting was retained by Mr. Dixon, but it was engraved in mezzotint by Ward.
There is also of Prince a mezzotintengraving of a painting, of which there is a heliotype in the Mem.
Smith in his British Mezzotint Portraits enumerates a series (vol.
It is also in Harvard College library, and contains the mezzotint portrait of Bolzius, the senior minister of Ebenezer, which is engraved on wood in Gay’s Pop.
There is a good mezzotintportrait of Dobbs, of which an excellent reproduction is given in Smith’s British Mezzotint Portraits.
If it will admit of any adventitious aid, it may perhaps be, in a very subordinate degree, mezzotint and aquatint.
The landscape and mezzotint engravers began, therefore, to vitalise the English school: the former especially lent it real importance by their talent.
Many of these also practised in stipple, but their finer works in mezzotint completely overshadow these productions.
Luttrell's works, learnt the method of mezzotint from Lloyd, a printseller, who is said to have obtained the secret from Blois, ground layer to Blootelingh.
Introduced mezzotint into England, and engraved some fine prints in the method, which were probably executed abroad.
Mezzotint Engraver to Queen Victoria and to King Edward VII.
Dry-point, etching proper, and engraving proper are often combined in one plate; and a mixture of etching with mezzotint or aquatint is not uncommon.
This was formerly unnamed, but the mezzotint engraving after it by Fisher shows it to have been painted by Dance; doubtless when the King was over here in 1767 for his marriage to Princess Matilda.
This portrait was painted by Rigaud, as the contemporary mezzotint engraving by J.
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