Madonna and Child
December 3, 1774
Medium
Mezzotint
Dimensions
Plate (trimmed within plateline at bottom): 19 5/8 × 14 in. (49.8 × 35.5 cm) Sheet: 19 15/16 × 14 11/16 in. (50.7 × 37.3 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gertrude and Thomas Jefferson Mumford Collection, Gift of Dorothy Quick Mayer, 1942
Accession Number
42.119.94
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
About the Artist
Valentine Green|Angelica Kauffmann|R. Sayer and J. Bennett · 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...