Sir Thomas Wharton
Valentine Green
c. 1770
Medium
Mezzotint on paper
Dimensions
Image: 51.1 × 35.4 cm (20 1/8 × 13 15/16 in.); Plate: 52.7 × 35.4 cm (20 3/4 × 13 15/16 in.); Sheet: 54.2 × 36.5 cm (21 3/8 × 14 3/8 in.)
Classification
mezzotint
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
52981
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...