Antique Mezzotints

George Brookshaw’s brother, Richard Brookshaw (1736—c.1804) was a portrait painter and engraver well versed in mezzotint and copperplate engraving techniques, and may have instructed...

Sight: 45 ½ by 27 ½ inches Frame: 53 by 35 inches Line, stipple and mezzotint engraving. Published by William Lucas & Co., London, 1869.

'Antirrhinum Orontium' Mezzotint printed in colours. Circa 1740. From Johann W Weinmann's Phytanthoza Iconographia, published in Regensburg 1737-45.

Anne, Viscountess Townshend, reproduced by Goupil & Co from the mezzotint by Valentine Green after Sir Joshua Reynolds 1907.

'Acarna Theophrasti' and 'Acer Campestre minus' Mezzotint printed in colours. Circa 1740. From Johann W Weinmann's Phytanthoza Iconographia, published in Regensburg 1737-45.

He worked in many manners, etching, dry point, mezzotint, sand-ground mezzotint, and burin engraving.

Phytanthoza Iconographia was groundbreaking in its use of mezzotint combined with line engraving, a technique that allowed for remarkable shading and depth in the depiction of flower...

This training revealed his natural artistic talents and during his early career he established himself as a successful mezzotinter, reproducing works by other artists. Ward started ...

The full-length version of Lely’s painting ‘Queen Anne when a child’, c.1678 was known through mezzotint engravings produced in the seventeenth century, but was only rediscovered in ...

Showing different heads observed from oblique angles, the studies show the influence of Giovanni-Battista Piazzetta and the Irish portraitist Thomas Frye, whose own head studies publ...

This drawing is the original sketch for one of the heads depicted in Frye's collection 'Twelve Mezzotint Prints' of 1760 and it can be assumed that this pastel work was created earli...

He painted several subjects for Boydell's Shakespeare Gallery, designed illustrations to Bell's edition of the poets, and practised to some small extent as an etcher and mezzotint-en...

One of his specialties was the mezzotint. Condition: Very good, please study image carefully.

Print, half-length portrait of Sir John McMahon, mezzotint by Charles Turner after Thomas Lawrence, 1815.

His success lasted until 1802, when, mezzotint engravings having gone out of fashion, John Raphael Smith devoted all his activity to pastel.

Mixed media engraving (aquatint, mezzotint, color printing and hand-coloring over stipple engraving).

Thomas Goff Lupton was a mezzotint engraver and miniature painter who was the first artist to use soft steel plates in the art of engraving.

Thomas Goff Lupton was a mezzotint engraver and miniature painter who was the first artist to use soft steel plates in the art of engraving.

Thomas Goff Lupton was a mezzotint engraver and miniature painter who was the first artist to use soft steel plates in the art of engraving.

Thomas Goff Lupton was a mezzotint engraver and miniature painter who was the first artist to use soft steel plates in the art of engraving.

Thomas Goff Lupton was a mezzotint engraver and miniature painter who was the first artist to use soft steel plates in the art of engraving.

Portrait of the Painter Johann Kepezky is an original Etching and Mezzotint realized in 1734 by Johann Jakob Haid (Kleineislingen, 1704 - Augsburg, 1767).

This plate: No. 113 Ananas Folio Latiore. Mezzotint engraving printed in color and finished by hand at the time of publication.

This plate: N. 304 Caranna.[Palm Tree]. Mezzotint engraving printed in color and finished by hand at the time of publication.

This plate: Cereus Minimus Serpens Americanus. [Cactus]. Mezzotint engraving printed in color and finished by hand at the time of publication.

The second was John Douglas Miller, apparently born early in 1850 in Paris, who in 1871 was a co-pupil and just ahead of William in the Royal Academy Schools: he became a well-known ...

Modelled by Farnsworth, based on a mezzotint by James McArdle, with sword and shield, on scroll base.

His work spans several subject matters and mediums, including landscapes and seascapes, genre scenes and portraits, in etching, mezzotint, oil paint, and watercolor. He was elected A...

A third volume of 100 prints was published by Boydell in 1819, which was numbered separately, containing mezzotints by Earlom after other drawings by Claude in various collections.

A third volume of 100 prints was published by Boydell in 1819, which was numbered separately, containing mezzotints by Earlom after other drawings by Claude in various collections.

The engravings were made by using the etching technique, the type is mezzotint. The items are from a private collection in Austria.

A third volume of 100 prints was published by Boydell in 1819, which was numbered separately, containing mezzotints by Earlom after other drawings by Claude in various collections.

Antique print titled 'His Imperial Majesty, Charles the Fifth, Emperor of Germany (..)'. Mezzotint with stipple technique and etching of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor.

A final portrait is revealed on the very interior of the cabinet, where a mezzotint of Frederick, Anne, Amelia and Caroline, children of the Prince of Wales, resides.

For the first time in England, steel plates were used for the engravings, along with a variety of techniques including mezzotint and hand coloring. The prints are also enhanced with ...

For the first time in England, steel plates were used for the engravings, along with a variety of techniques including mezzotint and hand coloring. The prints are also enhanced with ...

For the first time in England, steel plates were used for the engravings, along with a variety of techniques including mezzotint and hand coloring. The prints are also enhanced with ...

For the first time in England, steel plates were used for the engravings, along with a variety of techniques including mezzotint and hand coloring. The prints are also enhanced with ...

For the first time in England, steel plates were used for the engravings, along with a variety of techniques including mezzotint and hand coloring. The prints are also enhanced with ...

For the first time in England, steel plates were used for the engravings, along with a variety of techniques including mezzotint and hand coloring. The prints are also enhanced with ...

Pieter Van Bleeck Petrus Johannes (Pieter) van Bleeck (baptized 25 June 1697 in The Hague – 20 July 1764 in London) was an 18th century Dutch portrait painter and mezzotint engraver ...

He revived the practices of mezzotint* and aquatint* engraving, and also wrote about printmaking to educate a wider public.

Dealt in a wide range of works, including stipples, portraits, and books, decorative items arranged by subject; but the main business was in 18c & 19c British and French mezzotin...

Edward Dayes was an English watercolour painter and mezzotint engraver. He first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1786, when he showed a portrait and views of Waltham Cross and Cant...

For the first time in England, steel plates were used for the engravings, along with a variety of techniques including mezzotint and hand coloring. The prints are also enhanced with ...

Many of Wissing's portraits of prominent sitters and his self-portrait were disseminated in mezzotint.

Color mezzotint on fibrous, buff wove paper, 19 x19 inches (482 x 484 mm), full margins.

For the first time in England, steel plates were used for the engravings, along with a variety of techniques including mezzotint and hand coloring. The prints are also enhanced with ...

He exhibited at the Ipswich Fine Art Club from 100 Sunningdale Road, Hendon, London in 1923, a mezzotint 'The Rickyard'. Shortly before his death he donated a quantity of his waterco...

Edward Dayes was an English watercolour painter and mezzotint engraver. He first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1786, when he showed a portrait and views of Waltham Cross and Cant...

Turner's Liber Studiorum, a collection of seventy-one etchings with mezzotint, greatly influencing landscape painting.

As was popular during the late 19th century, Tissot dabbled in mysticism and attended Spiritualist séances. His famous mezzotint from the Fine Arts Museums’ collection, The Apparitio...

The company originally dealt in prints, mezzotints, etching and engravings and in 1908 they decided to broaden their horizons by opening in the capital.

Antique print titled 'Baccha Nalians'. Rare large-sized mezzotint made after the painting 'The March of Silenus' by Peter Paul Rubens.

Antique mezzotint of John Wilson-Patten, Baron Winmarleigh.

Untitled mezzotint depicting an unidentified person. Signed by Hubert von Herkomer.

Antique print titled 'Illyricus magno veles irae fluctuat cestu (..)'. Mezzotint of travellers being robbed by bandits.