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aquatint

[ UK /əkwˈætɪnt/ ]
NOUN
  1. an etching made by a process that makes it resemble a water color
  2. a method of etching that imitates the broad washes of a water color
VERB
  1. etch in aquatint

How To Use aquatint In A Sentence

  • These "Observations" were the first of a series of volumes by Gilpin on the scenery of Great Britain, composed in a poetic and somewhat over-luxuriant style, illustrated by drawings in aquatinta, and all described on the title page as "Relative chiefly to Picturesque Beauty. A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century
  • No doubt Mr Mutley is well aquatinted with the way dogs mate, having mounted the lady dog the chap dog turns around and then they commence to perform the filthy act facing away from each other, having smelt pedigree chum on a dogs breath I cant say that I blame them. Double Jeopardy
  • Most of the drawings, etchings and aquatints that convey his bitter contempt and passionate despair for what the artist saw as a Spanish hell on earth remained unknown to the public until after his death.
  • Eighteen pieces range from early bronzes through mask-like aquatints and oil portraits of his sister Marguerite to a late and joyful cobalt-blue paper cut-out of a nude.
  • Samuel Ireland in 1791 gives us an aquatint showing the church in the background.
  • The artists took incredible care in producing the original watercolors, engravings, lithographs and aquatints.
  • That this famous work was perhaps the finest set of colored engravings using aquatint is not even mentioned, much less explored.
  • The texture of the revolving bowl and the softness of the reflection convert the view into an eighteenth century aquatint in which motor cars seem as delicate and exotica as sedan chairs.
  • A further displacement from the land is suggested in two tiny etchings of the foetuses of an elephant and a monkey, beautifully worked in aquatint.
  • Etching, aquatint, silkscreen, lithography and woodcut are among the processes represented in the approximately 125 works in this show.
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