Description Medium: Mezzotint engraving on hand laid (verge) paper. Watermark: (lettering). Sheet size: 23 x 33 cm (9.06 x 12.99 inch). Image size: 20 x 28 cm. (7.87 x 11.02 inch). Condition: good, given age. Light foxing, soiling, and creasing. Thin paper spots. Small tear at right bottom paper edge. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully. LADY CHAMBERS MEZZOTINT, JAMES MCARDELL ENGRAVING, JOSHUA REYNOLDS PORTRAIT PRINT, 18TH CENTURY BRITISH PORTRAIT MEZZOTINT, CATHERINE MORE CHAMBERS PORTRAIT | PCO-E31-48 BACKGROUND INFORMATION National Portrait Gallery, London; mezzotint by James McArdell after Sir Joshua Reynolds, published 1756. Reference: NPG D2040. Biography engraver: James McArdell (c. 1727-1765) was one of the most accomplished mezzotint engravers working in eighteenth-century London. Born in Ireland, he became particularly renowned for his reproductive prints after the paintings of Sir Joshua Reynolds. Biography artist: Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792) was the leading portrait painter in Britain and the first President of the Royal Academy. His elegant and idealized portraits of aristocratic and fashionable sitters defined British portraiture in the eighteenth century.
