Portret van een vrouw, mogelijk Mary Richards 1768

Jonathan Spilsbury's 1768 mezzotint, "Portret van een vrouw, mogelijk Mary Richards," depicts a woman in an oval frame. She is dressed in a fashionable gown of the era, with a lace collar and a flower tucked into her bodice. The subject's elegant pose and the soft, detailed lines of the print are characteristic of mezzotint, a printing technique that creates tonal gradations through scraping and polishing a metal plate. Though the identity of the woman remains uncertain, Spilsbury's print is a fine example of 18th-century portraiture.