page_title: William Say (engraver)
section_title: Works
hierarchical_section_title: William Say (engraver) / Works
caption_attribution_description: English: England, 1824 Prints; mezzotints Mezzotint Sheet: 18 3/8 x 21 5/8 in. (46.67 x 54.93 cm) Gift of Alfred and Esther Norris (M.83.318.70) Prints and Drawings
context_page_description: William Say was a prolific English engraver, born in England, Norfolk, Lakenham.
context_section_description: Say became a popular engraver, working entirely in mezzotint. Between 1801 and 1834 he executed 335 plates, a large proportion of which were portraits of contemporary celebrities, from pictures by William Beechey, John Hoppner, Thomas Lawrence, James Northcote, Joshua Reynolds, and others.
  Say's subject-plates include Correggio's Holy Family with St. Catherine, Murillo's Spanish peasant boys, Raphael's Madonna di San Sisto, and William Hilton's Raising of Lazarus, He engraved one of Reynolds's two groups of members of the Dilettanti Society, and compositions by Henry Thomson, Henry Fradelle, Alfred Edward Chalon, and others.
  Say was one of the engravers employed by J. M. W. Turner on his Liber Studiorum, for which he executed eleven of the published and two of the unpublished plates. He also engraved two of the plates in Turner's River Scenery of England. These, with a view of Lincoln Cathedral after Frederick Mackenzie, were his main work in landscape.
  In 1820 Say scraped a small portrait of Queen Caroline after Arthur William Devis, the first attempt made in mezzotint on steel. Twelve hundred impressions were taken from the plate.
caption: Mezzotint "Three Maries".
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