MOTTRAM, Charles

English engraver. His line engravings include a reduced-size plate after Edwin Landseer’s The Challenge and a large plate after Rosa Bonheur’s Breton Oxen, both engraved in 1862. He also reproduced in mezzotint Thomas Jones Barker’s Morning before the Battle and Evening after the Battle published in 1865 and 1866. His most celebrated works however are the three mixed mezzotints plates reproducing John Martin’s Latest Judgement (1853), Plains of Heaven (1851-53) and Great Day of His Wrath (1851-53) all in London at the Tate Gallery. The three subjects were published by Thomas McLean in 1854 and their popularity lasted well into the 20th century.

Mottram was an expert in the application to steel plates of’sky tints’ with the use of the ruling machine.