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UK
/mˈɛzətˌɪnt/
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NOUN
- print produced by an engraving that has been scraped to represent light or shade
How To Use mezzotint In A Sentence
- On this occasion the always quoteworthy mezzotintist, James Huneker, wrote: Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and
- It discusses not only these and other panels, but also the artist's productions in the recently developed medium of mezzotint.
- This is the first exhibition devoted to Ruskin's engagement with printmaking examining his use of various methods, etching, woodcut, mezzotint and steel and copper engraving.
- Not only will mezzotinting give you stunning effects, but you'll also get more detail and a sharper image.
- She could copy prints, so that at a little distance you would scarcely know that the copy in stumped chalk was not a bad mezzotinto engraving. The Newcomes
- This, of course, refers to mezzotinting on copper; on steel it yields much larger editions.
- Shannon some mezzotinto prints of myself, and some more of my friends here, such as Burke, Johnson, Reynolds, and Colman. The Life of Oliver Goldsmith
- The intaglio printmaking techniques are engraving, drypoint, etching, aquatint, stipple, mezzotint and are discussed in part two of this article.
- Nuuk is rich with undertones, tidal washes, deep swathes of velvet mezzotint, patient soundings, submarinal echoes.
- Included in the exhibition are largescale portraits by such court painters as Sir Peter Lely as well as miniatures and mezzotints.