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Surreal mezzotints from Thomas Wright's "An Original Theory or New Hypothesis of the Universe" (1750)

Wright (1711-86) explained the Milky Way as an optical effect caused by our immersion in a layer of stars

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2021-12-23

Watercolour drawing of Peg Woffington by Thomas Rowlandson (used on the cover of Helen Brooks’ Actresses, Gender and the Eighteenth-century Stage). Seated before a mirror. Done after 1800, based on the mezzotint by Faber, after Eccardt. In the collection Library.

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2021-12-08

Creusa appearing to Aeneas
Rare mezzotint engraved by Valentine Green after Maria Cosway.
Aeneas tries to put his arms around Cerusa.
In the lower left are the flames of Troy burning.
Published 1781 in London.

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2021-12-03

L’Apparition médiunimique (The Apparition, 1885)

by James Tissot. Mezzotint.

Happy Halloween!

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2021-10-31

A taste of the sublime as we finish the day: John Martin's mezzotint, "The Courts of God" (1827). "The design was intended to express power and does so with a dream-like intensity" (Simon Cooke's new work on Martin is dazzling!) https://t.co/aimGr2i5W3

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2021-10-13

Notre Dame, Paris by Leonard Russell Squirrell 1924
Mezzotint
(New South Wales Art Gallery)

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2021-09-07

3/n Two icebergs, both alike in dignity: a perfectly chilly tinted lithograph and a dramatic mezzotint from the 1853 first edition of The U.S. Grinnell Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin https://t.co/SSgX0mpnD5

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2021-07-16

"The Bostonian’s Paying the Excise-Man, or Tarring & Feathering," London, Robert Sayer and John Bennett, 1774, mezzotint, engraving by Philip Dawe, sold for $47,880 at New York City, April 13-14, 2021

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2021-07-04

"The Judgment of Paris"
At the Drawing Room at Houghton. Published Augt 3, 1778 by John Boydell Engraver in Cheapside London"
Mezzotint (in German: Schabkunst) by Richard Earlom.
After the painting by Luca Giordano m. Painting in Berliner Museum. https://t.co/vqYHeSz6ng

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2021-06-01

Thursday My version of Defense Worker, carborundum mezzotint print by Dox Thrash, created around 1941

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2021-04-02

Enjoyed this! Thank you Thursday Defense Worker, carborundum mezzotint print by Dox Thrash, created around 1941
Happy Thursday everyone😁break out the charcoal

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2021-04-01

Thursday Defense Worker, carborundum mezzotint print by Dox Thrash, created around 1941
White pencil/china pencil on black paper - pretty rough, but I was good to stretch a little.

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2021-04-01

-wonderful Mezzotint by Richard
Title is misleading as Orpheus, the gifted and blessed singer and musician is shown as a miniature figure, with a horse, small and distant in the badkground

After the painting by Castiglione, London, 1781 https://t.co/gREFGaiXPR

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2021-02-10

Aren't they wonderful? After Claude Lorrain. Mezzotint by Richard Earlom (1743-1822)
Printed in superb sepia color
After the drawing by Claude le Lorrain (1600-1682)
Published in Liber Veritatis
London, dated 1774 https://t.co/76aLZGdiSa

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2021-01-17

1815: Death of Thomas Burke. Engraver & painter. Most of his work done using the mezzotint technique. Preferred to work for publishers. Best known work was a popular engraved print of Fuseli's, The Nightmare (right). https://t.co/Kamokq50WH
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2020-12-31

There’s a lot going on in this mezzotint with etching by John Simpson published depicting George III as “The botching taylor cutting his cloth to cover a button.”

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2020-12-28

For this week's I present a mezzotint of “Cupid Fighting with a Satyr” attributed to Jan van Somer c1680 brother of Paul van Somer II , but not a relative of Paul van Somer , James I's court painter.

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2020-10-24

A detail of Barbara Palmer (née Villiers), Duchess of Cleveland. The subtle shadings bring a different perspective to her character.
by Thomas Watson, after Sir Peter Lely
mezzotint, published 1779

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2020-10-24