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British Mezzotints

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Author : Sir Frank Short
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1925

British Mezzotints written by Sir Frank Short and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1925 with Engraving categories.

Old English Mezzotints

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Author : Malcolm Charles Salaman
language : en
Publisher: London ; Paris : The Studio
Release Date : 1910

Old English Mezzotints written by Malcolm Charles Salaman and has been published by London ; Paris : The Studio this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1910 with Mezzotint Engraving categories.

British Mezzotint Portraits

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Author : John Chaloner Smith
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1884

British Mezzotint Portraits written by John Chaloner Smith and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1884 with Mezzotint engraving categories.

British Mezzotints Being A Lecture Delivered To The Print Collectors Club On November 7th 1924

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Author : Frank Short
language : en
Publisher: Karig Press
Release Date : 2012-03-01

British Mezzotints Being A Lecture Delivered To The Print Collectors Club On November 7th 1924 written by Frank Short and has been published by Karig Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-03-01 with History categories.

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Old English Mezzotints

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Author : Malcolm C. Salaman
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub
Release Date : 2014-01-18

Old English Mezzotints written by Malcolm C. Salaman and has been published by Createspace Independent Pub this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-01-18 with Art categories.

Devoted to those beautiful and valuable Old English Mezzotins which interpret par excellence the great painters of the eighteenth century. Malcolm C. Salaman tells the story of mezzotint engraving from its inception to it climax at the close of the eighteenth century, and its decline in the early nineteenth. * * * * * An excerpt from the author's introductory:WHEN, in Christie's sale-room, the fine mezzotints or familiar portraits by Reynolds, Gainsborough, Romney or Hoppner—familiar, perhaps, chiefly through the prints— are being handed round the table, and the amazingly high bidding of eager dealers and collectors, bidding that seems to recognise no conscience save fashion's, is being voiced goadingly from the rostrum, my fancy is wont to travel back to those eighteenth-century days when the London print-shops were full of such prints fresh from the engravers' hands. I think of the fine old engravers themselves, content to sell their prints for the few shillings apiece at which the current demand appraised them, little dreaming that, in a hundred years or more, the greasy ink they used would have so dried on the very surface of the inimitable old paper as to give that richness of bloom which would induce future collectors to pay for single impressions sums sufficient to have bought for the artists themselves life annuities. I picture genial, honest Valentine Green, in 1780, at the height of his prosperity, drawing up his "Proposals" for publishing by subscription his engravings, from the paintings of Reynolds, of that sumptuous series of" Beauties of the Present Age," as he called them, which, with no thought of being modest, he offered at fifteen shillings a copy, or twelve shillings to subscribers; and I wonder what change amazement, and regret, too, in his later days of adversity, would have worked in the benevolent, sensitive face we know so well through Lemuel Abbott's portraiture, could he have foreseen how the twentieth century would value his gracious mezzotints of beautiful high-born women, while ignoring his once popular subject-prints after Benjamin West, so that a brilliant proof of his Duchess of Rutland (Plate XXXI.) would sell for just five times the two hundred guineas Sir Joshua charged the Duke for painting the picture. Yet, what compensation of gladness would his artist soul have felt could he have foretold that enthusiastic connoisseurs would visit the Fitzwilliam Museum at Cambridge primarily to see the finest known impression of his lovely Lady Elizabeth Compton (Plate XXXVI.)! John Raphael Smith, too, greatest of them all; I think of him scraping his masterly mezzotints to supply the mundane needs of his convivial nature and a large family, and printing off the copies only as they were called for, and I wonder whether the genuine artist or the astute business man in him would have been the more moved if, to encourage him on his way to prosperity, his good, helpful friend Angelo, the fencing-master, or, say, good-natured Jack Bannister—Charles Lamb's "beloved" comedian—had playfully suggested that impressions from these very copperplates would one day command sums approaching, and even reaching, four figures in pounds sterling. Smith, "good easy man," would probably have laughed his jovial laugh, and, laying aside for the day the plate, perhaps of Mrs. Carnac (Plate LVIII.), The Çower Family (Plate LX.),or The Promenade at Carlisle House (Plate LXXVI.), or whichever copper he happened to be engaged upon, would have called for a bottle—or two, and made merry over the fantastic idea. Yet, what a debt of gratitude we owe to those old mezzotint-engravers, who, in that wonderful second half of the eighteenth century, brought to perfection an exquisite art through which they could interpret delightful masterpieces of the painters'art, in all their spiritual and pictorial vitality, with an appealing charm of tone and suggested colour, ...

Catalogue Of A Collection Of English Portraits In Mezzotint From The Origin Of That Style Of Engraving To The End Of The Eighteenth Century

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Author : Walter F. Tiffin
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1883

Catalogue Of A Collection Of English Portraits In Mezzotint From The Origin Of That Style Of Engraving To The End Of The Eighteenth Century written by Walter F. Tiffin and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1883 with Mezzotint engraving categories.

A Select Collection Of English Mezzotints

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Author : American Art Association
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1928

A Select Collection Of English Mezzotints written by American Art Association and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1928 with Art categories.

British Mezzotinto Portraits

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Author : John Chaloner Smith
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1883

British Mezzotinto Portraits written by John Chaloner Smith and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1883 with Great Britain categories.

Guide To An Exhibition Of Mezzotint Engravings Chiefly From The Cheylesmore Collection

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Author : British Museum
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1905

Guide To An Exhibition Of Mezzotint Engravings Chiefly From The Cheylesmore Collection written by British Museum and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1905 with Mezzotint engraving categories.

Guide To An Exhibition Of Mezzotint Engravings

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Author : British Museum Dept of Prints and D
language : en
Publisher: Legare Street Press
Release Date : 2023-07-18

Guide To An Exhibition Of Mezzotint Engravings written by British Museum Dept of Prints and D and has been published by Legare Street Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-07-18 with categories.

A guide to the Cheylesmore collection of mezzotint engravings, including detailed information about the artists and the technique of mezzotint engraving. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.