A Youth Rescued from a Shark
Valentine Green
1779
Medium
Mezzotint on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
Plate/sheet; sheet cut within plate: 50.4 × 60.9 cm (19 7/8 × 24 in.)
Classification
mezzotint
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
182919
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
Valentine Green · 1739–1813
**Valentine Green (1739–1813)** was a leading British mezzotint engraver and print publisher whose work helped elevate the medium’s status in 18th-century Britain. Born on 3 October 1739 in Salford Priors near Evesham, Warwickshire, he initially trained for the law but abandoned it after two years in a solicitor’s office. He then studied line engraving under Robert Hancock in Worcester before movi...