Engraver: 
Francesco Bartolozzi, Italian, 1725-1815
 
After Joshua Reynolds, English, 1723-1792
Title: Jane, Countess of Harrington (née Fleming), (1755-1824), with her Two Eldest Sons, Viscount Charles Petersham (1780-1851), Later 4th Earl of Harrington, and the Hon. Lincoln Edwin [...]
Date: 1789
Medium: Coloured Stipple
Dimensions:
Sheet: 35.6 x 28.5 cm
Credit Line: Milltown Gift, 1902
Object Number: NGI.10315
DescriptionStipple is a tonal method of intaglio printmaking which became popular in the 1770s. Using a sharp pointed tool, hundreds of closely spaced dots or stipples are made in the etching ground to create the image. It was a relatively quick and easy process which could be printed in colours. Stipple was often used for 'furniture prints', designed to be framed and hung as part of an overall decorative scheme. Bartolozzi, one of the foremost stipple engravers of his day, translated family portraits in oils by artists like Reynolds and Angelica Kauffmann into delicate prints.
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