Tuesday, August 19, 2025

Protagonists

Isaac Beckett after Nicolas de Largillière
Mary of Modena, Queen Consort of James II
ca. 1685-88
mezzotint
British Museum


André Lanskoy
Cortège
1985
pochoir (greeting-card, recto)
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

André Lanskoy
Cortège
1985
pochoir (greeting-card, verso)
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Master N.D. after Rosso Fiorentino
Holy Family with St Elizabeth
ca. 1544
chiaroscuro woodcut
(School of Fontainebleau)
British Museum

Master N.D. after Rosso Fiorentino
Holy Family with St Elizabeth
ca. 1544
chiaroscuro woodcut
(School of Fontainebleau)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Master N.D. after Rosso Fiorentino
Holy Family with St Elizabeth
ca. 1544
chiaroscuro woodcut
(School of Fontainebleau)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Arthur Pond after Jacopo Bertoia
Venus in Chariot with Putti
ca. 1736
etching and chiaroscuro woodcut
British Museum

Georges Barbier
Le Matin
(plate from Gazette du Bon-Ton)
1925
lithograph and pochoir
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Jean-Gabriel Domergue
Le Miroir Ovale
1920
pochoir
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Viktor Hammer
Dr Oskar Stracker, Vienna
ca. 1920-30
mezzotint
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Georg Fennitzer after Johann Bergmann
Posthumous Portrait of Andreas Bergmann
1693
color mezzotint printed à la poupée
Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum, Braunschweig

Vivant-Denon
L'Abbé Zani discovering unique niello engraving by Maso Finiguerra
1803
chiaroscuro woodcut and letterpress
Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, Ontario

Chuck Webster
Do the Earth by Hand
2013
pochoir and screenprint
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Chuck Webster
Houses Rise and Fall
2013
linocut, pochoir and screenprint
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Chuck Webster
Old Stone to New Building
2013
pochoir and screenprint
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Jan van Somer after Adam Elsheimer
Tobias and the Archangel Raphael in Moonlight
ca. 1670-80
mezzotint
British Museum

Paul Colin
Le Tumulte Noir
(formerly but wrongly said to be Josephine Baker)
1927
lithograph and pochoir
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

CATALEXIS ("leaving off") – A term of great importance, inasmuch as there is no other single one which can replace it; but a little vague and elastic in use.  Strictly speaking, a catalectic line is one which comes short, by a half-foot or syllable, of the full normal measure; a brachycatalectic ("short leaving off"), one which is a whole foot minus; and a hypercatalectic ("leaving over"), one which has a half foot (or perhaps a whole one in rare cases) too much.  The terms "catalexis" and "catalectic" are sometimes used loosely to cover all these varieties of deficiency and redundance in their several developments.  Acatalectic means a fully and exactly measured line, without excess or defect.  

– George Saintsbury, from Historical Manuel of English Prosody (1910)