Portrait of Boy with Falcon

Art Historical Context

**Portrait of a Boy with Falcon** is a delicate engraving by William Raddon, created between 1776 and1800. Measuring just 19.8 × 14.3 cm, this intimate print captures a young boy poised with a falcon on his gloved hand, evoking the elegance of late 18th-century portrait. Housed in the National Gallery of Art's Rosenwald Collection, it exemplifies the period's fascination with youth and nobility, where such scenes often symbolized refinement and heritage. As a print in the engraving medium, the work showcases Raddon's mastery of incising fine lines into a metal plate, inking it, and transferri...