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Title: 'Satan Aroused'
Artist and Era: A Signed Mezzotint By John Martin, English C1789-1854
Size: 11 x 7 1/4 Inches
Condition: Is unremarckable, Image is in excellent condition with obviuos press marks.
This stricking Mezzotint was published in London in 1849 by Henery Washbourne for Milton's Paradise Lost' Although the Mezzotint was engraved around 1824 and signed by John Martin- Underneath the Image is written ' Designed and Engraved by J.Martin ESQ. Book 4 Line 813.
This Exceptional Engraving Depicts Finely Detailed Figures With Spears and Sheilds Confronting Each Other with the finest of tonal qualities.
John Martin is considered to be the greatest English Engraver of the Late Gerogian and Early Victorian Period, He was a mater in his crafts this being a very difficult process to obtain the tonal qualities he is so famous for.
What is an Ethching/ Photogravure?
It is a type of etching- which is first a picture or scetch of a painting or other object taken on a sensitive film, a negative is than produced and or prepared and laid on or engraved into a sensitized metal plate, which is then developed and bitten with a mordant producing a plate that may be printed from.
Such a plate has no sharp incised lines like a plate used for the steel engravings, but rather minute photgravure is a testament to the skill of the artisans of the time...
I have many Ethchings/ PhotoGravures up for sale all Originals- No Repo's for the serious collectors and or Art Lovers or for just that perfect gift.
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