Robert Mitchell (19 May 1820 – 16 May 1873) was an English engraver, son of the engraver James Mitchell. He died at

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Works

Mitchell engraved in

mezzotint Mezzotint is a monochrome printmaking process of the intaglio (printmaking), intaglio family. It was the first printing process that yielded half-tones without using line- or dot-based techniques like hatching, cross-hatching or stipple. Mezzo ...

''Tapageur, a fashionable Member of the Canine Society'', after

Sir Edwin Landseer Sir Edwin Henry Landseer (7 March 1802 – 1 October 1873) was an English painter and sculptor, well known for his paintings of animals – particularly horses, dogs, and stags. His best-known work is the lion sculptures at the base of Nelso ...

(1852) and ''The Parish Beauty'' (1853) and ''The Pastor's Pet'', a pair after Alfred Rankley (1854). In the mixed style he engraved ''The Happy Mothers'' and ''The Startled Twins'', a pair after

Richard Ansdell Richard Ansdell (11 May 1815 – 20 April 1885) was a United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, British painter of animals and genre work, genre scenes. Life Ansdell was born in Liverpool (then in Lancashire), the son of Thomas Griffiths ...

, R.A. (1850), and ''Christ walking on the Sea'', after

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(1854). Several of his etched plates were completed in mezzotint by other engravers.

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;Attribution {{DEFAULTSORT:Mitchell, Robert 1820 births 1873 deaths 19th-century English engravers