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Miss Kitty Dressing
Thomas Watson1781
- Attribution
- Thomas Watson (English, 1743-1781) after Joseph Wright of Derby (English, 1734-1797)
- Medium
- Mezzotint, with traces of engraving, in dark brown on ivory laid paper
- Physical dimensions
- Image: 40.9 × 32.9 cm (16 1/8 × 13 in.); Plate: 45.3 × 33 cm (17 7/8 × 13 in.); Sheet: 58.7 × 46 cm (23 1/8 × 18 1/8 in.)
- Credit line
- Elizabeth Glore Memorial and Print and Drawing Purchase funds
CATALOGUE RECORD
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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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