William Dickinson
William Dickinson is a mezzotint specialist whose surviving prints centre on portraiture, a genre in which the tonal richness of that technique could be fully deployed. Our archive preserves a single sheet by this artist, a portrait of Helena Fourment, engraved in mezzotint and dated by the Met to 1780. The holding is therefore narrow in scope yet representative of the period's taste for reproductive portrait prints, and impressions up to that year reflect how such plates continued to circulate.
1 works in the collection · All public domain (CC0)
