Miss Kitty Dressing

Art Institute of Chicago

Miss Kitty Dressing

Thomas Watson (English, 1743-1781)LinkedCulture matchlcp-d8c245b6365c

Date
1781
Medium
Mezzotint, with traces of engraving, in dark brown on ivory laid paper
Culture
United Kingdom
Department
Prints and Drawings
Institution
Art Institute of Chicago
Object ID
158689

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Thomas Watson was one of the most gifted mezzotint engravers of his generation. In this intimate and slightly humorous example after a painting by Joseph Wright of Derby, he achieved a convincing sense of interior candlelight illumination through his soft touch. The portraits in this image appear to depict the same girls found in Wright’s similarly lit composition An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump , an oil painting now in the National Gallery in London.

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Elizabeth Glore Memorial and Print and Drawing Purchase funds

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AAT300041273

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