A Visit to the Aunt
December 20, 1794
Medium
Etching and aquatint
Dimensions
Sheet (trimmed): 6 13/16 × 9 1/8 in. (17.3 × 23.2 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1959
Accession Number
59.533.492
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
About the Artist
Francis Jukes|Thomas Rowlandson|S. W. Fores · 1745–1812
Francis Jukes was born in 1745 in Martley, Worcestershire, and became one of England’s most prolific engravers and publishers of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. He began his career as a topographical painter before turning to etching and line engraving. He then mastered aquatint, a tonal printmaking process he learnt from the watercolourist Paul Sandby, becoming one of the earl...