The Little Executioner
1662
Jusepe de Ribera
Jusepe de Ribera (Spanish, 1591–1652)
Prints
The Little Executioner, 1662. After Jusepe de Ribera (Spanish, 1591–1652), Prince Ruprecht (German, 1619–1682). Mezzotint; The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland 1947.153 Prince Ruprecht of the Rhine—a nobleman who was the nephew of England’s King Charles I—was among the earliest practitioners of mezzotint, a printmaking technique first used in Germany in the 1600s. Prince Ruprecht is credited with bringing the technique to England around 1660, where he introduced it to John Evelyn, who was engaged in writing a book on the history of printmaking. Ruprecht created this image (after a painting thought to be by Jusepe de Ribera) to illustrate the mezzotint process in Evelyn’s book, making it the first mezzotint printed in England.
- Maker/Artist
- Ribera, Jusepe de
- Classification
- Formatted Medium
- mezzotint
- Medium
- mezzotint
- Departments
- Prints
- Accession Number
- 1947.153
- Credit Line
- Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland
- Exhibitions
- Eight Masters of the Print, Real Prints: Reproduction or Invention, A Lasting Impression: Gifts of the Print Club of Cleveland
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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