Heroic Stormy Landscape, mezzotint and etching printed à la poupée in two colours, after Jan van Huysum, 1724
Elisha Kirkall (c.1682–1742) was a prolific English engraver, who made many experiments in printmaking techniques. He was noted for engravings on type metal that could be set up with letterpress for book illustrations, and was also known as a mezzotint artist.
ElishaKirkall (c.1682–1742) was a prolific English engraver, who made many experiments in printmaking techniques. He was noted for engravings on type...
illustration was a woodcut of the tomb scene, thought to be created by ElishaKirkall, which appeared in Nicholas Rowe's 1709 edition of Shakespeare's plays...
use of embossing may have been influenced by British contemporaries ElishaKirkall (1681/2–1742) and Arthur Pond (1701–58). Details of Jackson's life are...
the Cape of Good Hope, North America, the West Indies, and Mexico. ElishaKirkall produced the mezzotint engravings. Each plate was dedicated to a patron...
copper relief etching had been practised in the early 18th century by ElishaKirkall, but Blake was the first to use such a method to create both words and...
relief etching had been practised in the early eighteenth century by ElishaKirkall, but Blake was the first to use such a method to create both words and...
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