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Francis Jukes
published 1794
Medium
Color aquatint on paper
Classification
aquatint
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
15050
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
Francis Jukes · 1745–1812
Francis Jukes was born in 1745 in Martley, Worcestershire, and became one of England’s most prolific engravers and publishers of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. He began his career as a topographical painter before turning to etching and line engraving. He then mastered aquatint, a tonal printmaking process he learnt from the watercolourist Paul Sandby, becoming one of the earl...