
Thomas WatsonInglaterra, 1750–1781Será possível contemplá-la?
Chicago, Estados Unidos
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Thomas Watson was one of the most gifted mezzotint engravers of his generation. In this intimate and slightly humorous example after a painting by Joseph Wright of Derby, he achieved a convincing sense of interior candlelight illumination through his soft touch. The portraits in this image appear to depict the same girls found in Wright’s similarly lit composition An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump, an oil painting now in the National Gallery in London.
Art Institute of ChicagoCC BY 4.0