William Shakespeare / Samuel Cousins, A.R.A. – Antique Wall Art
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Few images capture their era like this historic print of William Shakespeare / Samuel Cousins, A.R.A.. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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William Shakespeare / Samuel Cousins, A.R.A.
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Samuel Cousins, an English engraver and Associate of the Royal Academy, made this 1849 mezzotint of William Shakespeare, who lived from 1564 to 1616. Mezzotint was a tonal method: the plate was roughened all over with a rocker tool, then scraped and burnished so light areas emerged from the dark ground. That suited it to reproducing oil paintings, and Cousins was one of the best-known practitioners of the form in nineteenth-century Britain. Prints like this one carried the playwright's likeness into middle-class homes, where a portrait of Shakespeare signaled literary taste.
| Medium | 1 print : mezzotint. |
|---|---|
| Notes | 1849 |
| Subjects | Shakespeare, William,--1564-1616. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,098 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-110716 |
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