Richard Houston
Richard Houston belongs to the mezzotint tradition of eighteenth-century British printmaking, a technique prized for its soft tonal gradations and its ability to reproduce the subtlety of painted originals. His subjects drawn from religious narrative place him within the era's taste for dramatic, morally charged scenes rendered in dark, velvety tones. The archive holds a single sheet by him, Haman's Condemnation, executed in mezzotint with a scratched letter state, and impressions survive from 1775.
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