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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, ...
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 Art categories.
Old English Mezzotints
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Author : Malcolm Charles Salaman
language : en
Publisher: Palala Press
Release Date : 2018-02-15
Old English Mezzotints written by Malcolm Charles Salaman and has been published by Palala Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-02-15 with categories.
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Old English Mezzotints Classic Reprint
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Author : Malcolm C. Salaman
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016-07-23
Old English Mezzotints Classic Reprint written by Malcolm C. Salaman and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-07-23 with Art categories.
Excerpt from Old English Mezzotints XVI. Miss Kitty Gunning. By Richard Houston, after Francis Cotes. From a print in the Collection of Mr. Henry Percy Horne. XVII. Woman Plucking a Fowl. By Richard Houston, after Rembrandt. From a print in the Collection of Mr. Henry Percy Horne. XVIII. Caroline, Duchess of Marlborough, and Daughter. By Richard Houston, after Sir Joshua Reynolds. From a print in the possession of Mr. Frank T. Sabin. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Author : Charles 1848-1923 Holme
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016-08-28
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Old English Mezzotints
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Author : Charles Holme
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1910
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Old English Mezzotints Reproductions
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Author : P.P. - London. - Studio
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1910
Old English Mezzotints Reproductions written by P.P. - London. - Studio and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1910 with categories.
Catalogue Of A Valuable Collection Of Engravings Comprising Old English Mezzotints And Coloured Prints Etchings By Rembrandt And A Collection Of Old English Mezzotint And Coloured Engravings The Property Of A Gentleman
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Author : F. F. Sabin
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1897
Catalogue Of A Valuable Collection Of Engravings Comprising Old English Mezzotints And Coloured Prints Etchings By Rembrandt And A Collection Of Old English Mezzotint And Coloured Engravings The Property Of A Gentleman written by F. F. Sabin and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1897 with categories.
Catalogue Of A Valuable Collection Of Engravings Comprising Old English Mezzotints Coloured Prints Etchings By Rembrandt Works Of A Durer Etc
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Author : Christie, Manson & Woods
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1897
Catalogue Of A Valuable Collection Of Engravings Comprising Old English Mezzotints Coloured Prints Etchings By Rembrandt Works Of A Durer Etc written by Christie, Manson & Woods and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1897 with 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 Art categories.