portrait of Samuel Cousins (print)
John Lane (1854-1925)Licence: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
Descriptions
Cousins produced dozens of portrait mezzotints during his career. This print, the last one he ever engraved, reproduces his portrait painted by Edwin Long. The print shows Cousins preparing a mezzotint plate by scraping it with a rocker. In the lower margin, other printmaking tools are visible.
Long’s painting is also in the collection at RAMM (46/1925/14).
This object is not on display.
Inscription
centre below image pencil inscribed Presented to the Royal Albert Memorial Museum by John Lane of the Bodley Head London November 1913
lower right printed grey label inscribed Samuel Cousins RA 1883 Engraved by the artist 1884 after his own portrait painted by Edwin Long Presented by John Lane Esqr
lower right signed Saml Cousins
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