English artist Richard Earlom was a master mezzotinter, practicing the craft of printmaking from steel or copper plates after roughening some areas for darkening and smoothing other spots for lightening the image. Here we see an interesting “art within art” piece, in Earlom’s rendering of a gallery showing at the famous London institution of the arts.
Paintings Exhibition at the Royal Academy, c.1776, EngravingRichard Earlom British (1743 - 1822) |
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English artist Richard Earlom was a master mezzotinter, practicing the craft of printmaking from steel or copper plates after roughening some areas for darkening and smoothing other spots for lightening the image. Here we see an interesting “art within art” piece, in Earlom’s rendering of a gallery showing at the famous London institution of the arts. |
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