Print Description
Original antique print showing a portrait of John Metcalf (1717 – 1810), known as Blind Jack of Knaresborough or Blind Jack Metcalf, the first professional road builder to emerge during the Industrial Revolution.
Made by Anonymous after John Raphael Smith.
Medium: Engraving / etching on wove (vellin) paper.
Sheet size: 10.3 x 18.3 cm (4.06 x 7.2 inch). Image size: 9 x 12.6 cm. (3.54 x 4.96 inch).
Condition: good, given age. A few wrinkles. Remains of paper from previous attachment shining through, which we can remove on request. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.
JOHN METCALF-BLIND JACK-PORTRAIT | PCO-C46-31
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
Later impression of a print published in York in ‘The Life of John Metcalf 9…’, 1795.
Biography engraver: Engraver unknown / to be determined.
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