Francis Bacon
1820
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
1820
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Francis Bacon is a 1820 ink by James Thomson, a Romanticism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This is a black-and-white portrait of a man in old-fashioned clothes. He wears a large hat, a ruffled collar, and a patterned jacket. The background is plain, and the lines are sharp but soft, like drawn shadows. The name "Francis Bacon" is written below, but this isn’t a painting—it’s an *engraving*. That means the artist carved the image into metal and printed it, not painted it on canvas. Check out how *engraving* works to see how this kind of portrait was made.
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