Art Institute of Chicago
Miss Kitty Dressing
Thomas Watson (English, 1743-1781)
- 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
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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- Object type
- AAT300041273
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