Aquatints, Mezzotints and Drypoints

Antique aquatints, mezzotints and drypoints

This small category brings together three related tonal techniques prized for their soft, painterly depth: aquatint, mezzotint and drypoint. It includes a mezzotint portrait of the Marquess of Lansdowne by H. Cook after Lawrence, a Debucourt aquatint after Hippolyte Lecomte, and mezzotints after Van Dyck and Lely by James McArdell, dated between 1790 and 1836.

The category suits collectors focused on these tonal intaglio techniques and on eighteenth-century portraiture. Every piece is an original period impression, with a technical description and exact measurements.