Jane, Countess of Harrington
Valentine Green
1780
Medium
Mezzotint on paper
Dimensions
Image: 59.8 × 38.7 cm (23 9/16 × 15 1/4 in.); Sheet: 63.2 × 38.7 cm (24 15/16 × 15 1/4 in.)
Classification
mezzotint
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
27627
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...