On display at the National Gallery of Art, an 18th-century print has the emotional resonance of a meme. Artist Henry Tresham’s 1784 illustration from “The Adventures of Sappho” depicts the Greek poet ...
Aquatint is a kind of archaic printing technique, which produces an effect resembling a watercolor from a plate etched with nitric acid. Its use began in the late 1700s and continued throughout the ...
The Doctor Dismissing Death, 1785. Designed by Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827), engraved by P. Simon, aquatinted by Francis Jukes (1747-1812). GC112 Thomas Rowlandson Collection. Gift of Dickson Q.
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