Exhibition of English mezzotint portraits from circa 1750 to circa 1830

Burlington Fine Arts Club

RA Collection: Book

Record number

18/235

Author

Edition

1st edition

Imprint

London: Printed for the Burlington Fine Arts Club, 1902

Physical Description

70 pages, 30 leaves of plates : illustrations (black and white) ; 42 cm.

General Note

Plates are collotype reproductions of mezzotints. Each leaf of plates is accompanied by a guard leaf bearing letterpress captions.
The committee for the exhibition were Lord Cheylesmore, Lt.-Colonel Croft Lyons, W. G. Rawlinson, Esq. and Frederick Wedmore, Esq.

Contents

Partial content: Introduction / Frederick Wedmore -- Notes, chiefly on the technique of mezzotint engraving / W.G. Rawlinson (pp. 15-26) -- List of works on mezzotint engraving and engravers (p.26) -- Biographical notices of the engravers: William Whiston Barney, George Clint, John Dean, William Dickinson, John Dixon, William Doughty, Robert Dunkarton, Gainsborough Dupont, Richard Earlom, John Finlayson, Edward Fisher, J. Gainer, Valentine Green, Joseph Grozer, Charles Howard Hodges, Henry Hudson, John Jacobé, John Jones, Elizabeth Judkins, George Keating, Caroline Kirkley, James McArdell, Joseph Philip Liberati Marchi, Henry Meyer, Charles Phillips, Samuel William Reynolds, William Say, John Raphael Smith, Jonathan Spilsbury, Charles Turner, James Walker, James Ward, William Ward ARA, James Watson, Thomas Watson, John Young. (pp. 57-66)

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