Beauties of the Present Age. Sir Joshua Reynolds – The Rob Dixon Collection. Contacting us, our client requested specialist artwork scanning of an initial 9 of his fine mezzotints into high quality TIFF 600dpi digital files for his online publications. http://www.sirjoshuareynolds.com/RSD_Collection/Rob_Dixon_Collection_Beauties.htm Beauties of the Present Age A set of 11 fine mezzotints, engraved by Valentine Green after Sir Joshua Reynolds, published 1779-1782, the most sought after set of mezzotints. Fine proof impressions fetched extraordinary prices in the early 20 th century. It is believed that Green only issued 50 proofs. These sought after and very valuable mezzotints were fragile and required a careful approach to digitisation. With our client wishing to watch the process, to ensure the conversion went as per his instructions, we started processing the images. Mezzotint is a monochrome printmaking process of the int...
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