Download or read book Engravings in Mezzotint Classic Reprint written by Sydney Ernest Wilson and published by . This book was released on 2016-06-27 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Engravings in Mezzotint The original picture is in the possession of the Earl of Dudley and hangs in his town residence in Carlton Gardens; it is apparently identical with the work described in Smith's l'catalogue Raisonne, No. 76 as in the possession of Mr. Smith Owen, at Condover in 1827. It has only once before been engraved, in 1876, when a line engraving on a small size (i.e. 10 x83 was executed by F. I. Ioubert for Mrs. Noseda. It is one of Greuze's most attractive heads and ranks equally with any of those in the Wallace Collection and in the Louvre. Greuze's reputation tovday chie y rests on his single heads and figures of young children and of girlhood just budding into womanhood, in all of which simplicity is blended with a voluptuous grace unexcelled by any other artist, French or foreign. Very little is known of the history of the picture, which is one of the several examples of Greuze ac. Quired by one of the greatest collectors of modern times, the late Earl of Dudley, whose splendid gallery of Old Masters. 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."
Download or read book Engravings in Mezzotint written by Sydney Ernest Wilson and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mezzotinto Engraving written by M. Knoedler & Co and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mezzotinto Engraving Classic Reprint written by M. Knoedler Co and published by . This book was released on 2016-06-14 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Mezzotinto Engraving Prince Rupert went to England, and nine years afterwards, in the hands of William Sherwin, the development of the new mezzotinto engraving began in the country where it was destined to rise to its highest state. Sherwin's first print is dated 1669. 'there were a number of en gravers at this period who were success ful in producing good work, the most noted being Place, Cascar, Blootelling, Valek, and J. Smith. At the opening ofthe 18th century J. Smith was the foremost history, artist in mezzotinto engraving. When m. This style of art had become concentrated in England, artists ocked there from other countries; from France, J. Simon. 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."
Download or read book Fine Prints Classic Reprint written by Frederick Wedmore and published by . This book was released on 2016-07-22 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Fine Prints The study of engravings, ancient and modern - of woodcuts, line engravings, etchings, mezzotints - has become by this time extremely elaborate and immensely complicated. Most people know nothing of it, and do not even realise that behind all their ignorance there is a world of learning and of pleasure, some part of which at least might be theirs if they would but enter on the land and seek to possess it. Few men, even of those who address themselves to the task, acquire swiftly any substantial knowledge of more than one or two depart ments of the study; though the ideal collector, and I would even say the reasonable one, whatever he may actually own, is able, sooner or later, to take a survey of the larger ground - his eye may range intelligently over fields he has no thought of annexing. From this it will be concluded - and concluded rightly - that the print-collector must be a specialist, more or less. More or less, at least at the beginning, must he address himself with particular care to one branch of the study. And which is it to be? The number of fine Schools of Etching and Engraving is really so considerable that the choice may well be his own. This or that master, this or that period, this or that method, he may select with freedom, and will scarcely go wrong. But the mention of it brings one. 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.
Download or read book Etching and Mezzotint Engraving written by Hubert Herkomer and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-21 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Etching and Mezzotint Engraving: Lectures Delivered at Oxford 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.
Download or read book Guide to an Exhibition of Mezzotint Engravings written by UNKNOWN. AUTHOR and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-28 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Guide to an Exhibition of Mezzotint Engravings: Chiefly From the Cheylesmore Collection The object of the present exhibition is to illustrate the history of Mezzotint Engraving from the date of its invention in 1642 down to that of its change and falling-off about 1820. The materials for the exhibition are derived chiefly from the bequest of the late Lord Cheylesmore, who died in August 1902, leaving to the Museum the whole of his celebrated collection of British mezzotint portraits. The examples drawn from this source are supplemented by others, in the proportion of about one to four or five, which were already in the Museum collection before the date of the Cheylesmore bequest, having been acquired, some by purchase and some by gift or legacy from earlier benefactors of the institution, e, g. Mr. Cracherode, Mr. Slade, or (as in the special instances of James Ward and William Say) the engravers themselves. The number of mezzotints now shown is 641, less than a twentieth certainly, probably less than a thirtieth, of the total number of this class of print preserved in the Museum. But in no class is there so great a difference between ordinary impressions, which are weak, worn, or rubbed, and those, relatively very rare, which are brilliant and well-preserved. The prints here put on view are all picked impressions, chosen with a view, first to their technical quality, so as to represent the art in its several stages at its best and most effective; and secondly to their historical interest, so as to form a full and varied gallery of national portraiture from the Restoration to the Regency. They are arranged in three series, A, B, and C; this arrangement being dictated by considerations partly of size and partly of chronology. Three standard sizes of mount are employed for prints in the Museum collection; royal, which is the smallest; imperial, the middle; and atlas, the largest. 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.
Download or read book Mezzotinto Engraving written by Wilfrid Ball and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Mezzotinto Engraving: A Paper Read Before the Sette of Odd Volumes at Willis's Rooms on March 4th, 1887 The fable, formerly current, that Prince Rupert in vented this art, while watching the markings made upon a piece of rag with which one of his soldiers was cleaning a rusty gun, is pleasingly ingenious, but wholly untenable. Rupert was, however, considered as the inventor until 1839, when Léon Laborde brought the actual discoverer to light in von Siegen. The error in question was promulgated by John Evelyn, of diary fame, who was the first to print an account of the art in a little treatise on Chalcography, published in London wherein he gives the Prince the credit of having invented the new way of engraving, or mezzotinto, as it was then styled. Evelyn should have contented himself with the state ment that Rupert communicated the process to him, for it is conclusively proved that Ludwig von Siegen, a Lieu tenant-colonel in the service of the Landgrave of Hesse, was really the inventor, a fact which is shown by a letter of his, dated 12-lgth August, 1642, still preserved at Cassel. Addressing the Landgrave, to whom he forwards a mezzotint portrait of his mother, Amelia Elizabeth, Siegen says: This is the print from copper, gracious Prince and Lord, which I promised to prepare for the ever praise worthy memory of your Grace's mother, in order that many illustrious persons, acquainted with the actions of so widely famed a princess, might be enabled to possess the likeness of her person. But since [have discovered a new or singular invention of a kind never hitherto beheld, I have, on account of the nicety of the work. Been able only to have few copies struck off, not thousands, as in the case of ordinary engravings, and therefore can with them only oblige a few persons. I could not neglect to dedicate to your Grace, as an extraordinary amateur of Art, such a rare and hitherto unseen work of Art and later, the present method is all merely dots, which information I did not wish to conceal from your Grace as being well skilled in Art. 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.
Download or read book Pictures written by George Romney and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-05 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Pictures: Also Sketches, Autograph Correspondence, and Fine Proof Mezzotint Engravings After That Celebrated Painter, the Property of Miss. Romney, Decreased III. In the case of Lots upon which there is a reserve, the Auctioneer shall have the right to bid on behalf Of the Seller. 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.
Download or read book A History of the Art of Engraving in Mezzotinto written by James Chelsum and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-09-08 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A History of the Art of Engraving in Mezzotinto: From It's Origin to the Present Times, Including an Account of the Works of the Earliest Artists [5] Mr. Granger fays, (vol. Iv.vp. 138) It is certain that there is a black-moor's head by him, in a different. 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.
Download or read book Catalogue of Etchings Engravings and Mezzotints written by American Art Galleries and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-30 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Catalogue of Etchings, Engravings and Mezzotints: Collection of Mr. Theodore Offerman Few etchers of the modern French school have produced such uniformly good work. - P. G. H emerton. 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.
Download or read book John Raphael Smith written by Arthur Mayger Hind and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-10 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from John Raphael Smith: And the Great Mezzotinters of the Time of Reynolds The enormous prices that have been realised by mezzotint in recent years have of course only gone for brilliant impressions in perfect condition, and the quality of impression is a more important factor with mezzotint than with engravings in any other process except dry-point. In fact the rarity of good impressions in the case of both mezzotint and dry-point comes from the same reason, the delicacy of the burr which gives to both their deep velvety tone. Twenty or thirty printings may be quite enough to wear down this burr, and leave the later prints as mere ghostly reminders of their former glories. In spite of this many of the most famous plates, such as J. R. Smith's Mrs. Carnac, and John Jones's Miss Kemble (c. S. Have yielded thousands of impressions. The Mrs. Carnac in particular, which is still in the possession of Messrs. P. And D. Colnaghi, has been reworked from time to time with such skill that even some modern impressions are effective. But they have almost lost all relationship with the original work, so drastic have been the restorations, and their value is negligible on that account. Modern photogravure gives marvellous results in reproducing the tone of oil-paintings. But as a photo-mechanical process that relies on etching for the work on the plate there is a complete absence of the rich burr that lends mezzotint its incomparable qualities of texture and tone. 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.
Download or read book Mezzotinto Engraving written by M. Knoedler & Co and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Old English Mezzotints written by Malcolm Charles Salaman and published by London ; Paris : The Studio. This book was released on 1910 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A General Catalogue of Rare and Valuable Engraved Portraits Classic Reprint written by Francis Harvey and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-09-16 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A General Catalogue of Rare and Valuable Engraved Portraits Celebrated Actress, maiden name Barton; born 1731; first appeared at the Haymarket 17 5 2, at Drury Lane 177 5 wife of James Abington died in Pall Mall 1815, buried in St. 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.
Download or read book Old English Mezzotints written by Malcolm C. Salaman and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2014-01-18 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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, ...
Download or read book Guide To An Exhibition Of Mezzotint Engravings written by British Museum Dept of Prints and D and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
