Mrs. Pelham Feeding Her Chickens
Medium
Mezzotint on cream wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 62 × 38.2 cm (24 7/16 × 15 1/16 in.); Plate: 62.1 × 38.5 cm (24 1/2 × 15 3/16 in.); Sheet: 65.5 × 42.5 cm (25 13/16 × 16 3/4 in.)
Classification
mezzotint
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
27227
Art Historical Context
Step into the serene world of 18th-century British printmaking with *Mrs. Pelham Feeding Her Chick*, a captivating mezzotint created by William Dickinson in 1775. This evocative image, housed in the Art Institute of Chicago's Prints Drawings Department, captures a moment of quiet domesticity on cream wove paper, measuring an impressive 62 × 38.2 cm for the image alone. Dickinson, a skilledaver of the Georgian era, specialized in mezzotints that brought painterly depth to affordable prints, making fine art accessible beyond elite circles. Mezzotint, often called the "dark manner," revolutioniz...