A Yorkshire Road
Medium
mezzotint in black on wove paper
Dimensions
plate: 12.7 × 30.48 cm (5 × 12 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1943.3.7650
Art Historical Context
**A Yorkshire Road** is a captivating mezzotint print created in 1898 by Frank Short a leading British printmaker of the late 19th century, after an original landscape by Peter De Wint (2–1849). De Wint, a master of luminous English rural scenes influenced by the Romantic tradition, often depicted the expansive beauty of the British countryside. This work evokes a serene Yorkshire road, likely winding through pastoral fields under expansive skies, capturing the quiet poetry of everyday English life during the Industrial Age. Short's mezzotint technique—a labor-intensive intaglio process invol...