Old Woman Leaning on a Cane, from Life-Sized Heads
Thomas Frye
1760
- Medium
- Mezzotint in black on buff laid paper
- Dimensions
- Image: 47.4 × 35.2 cm (18 11/16 × 13 7/8 in.); Plate: 50.5 × 35.4 cm (19 15/16 × 13 15/16 in.); Sheet: 52.8 × 37.8 cm (20 13/16 × 14 15/16 in.)
- Genre
- mezzotint
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
engraving (printing process)mezzotintprintingprintprints and drawingpaper (fiber product)
About
Frye's most important work in the graphic media was the mezzotint series of twelve life-sized heads. These monumental portraits are distinctive in the history of English mezzotints; not only is their life-size scale unusual, but they are also original portraits created specifically for the mezzotint medium. Only a few years after their creation, Frye's richly atmospheric mezzotints influenced portraits by Joseph Wright of Derby.
