William Pether
William Pether belongs to the tradition of eighteenth-century British mezzotint, a technique he used to translate painted portraits into richly toned prints. His engravings after Old Master and contemporary pictures brought sculpted flesh and fabric into deep, velvety shadow, and portraiture was his central subject. The archive holds a single sheet by Pether, a mezzotint dated 1769, printed as the example Portrait of Susanna Lunden, sister of Helena Fourment. That lone impression represents his period within the collection, and any later printings of the plate fall within the same year.
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