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Mezzotint color print of Robert E. Lee by T. Hamilton Crawford, 1939. It was printed by Frost & Reed Ltd., England. Mezzotint is a printmaking process of the intaglio family, technically a drypoint method, enabling half-tones to be produced without using line or dot-based techniques. T. Hamilton Crawford was a British visual artist who was born in 1860. Ca. 1939, item # 2006.0703.267, 56 x 45 cm.
Keywords
Robert E. Lee, Crawford, T. Hamilton, Frost & Reed Ltd., Mezzotints