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Mezzotint

noun
1.
Print produced by an engraving that has been scraped to represent light or shade.





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"Mezzotint" Quotes from Famous Books



... Illustrated Edition with seventeen full-page designs in photo-mezzotint by GEORGE R. CHAPMAN. 4to. Cloth, extra gilt leaves, ...
— Legends of the Saxon Saints • Aubrey de Vere
... chosen an Associate of the National Academy in 1865. Alexander Hay Ritchie (1822-95), born in Glasgow and educated in Edinburgh, was a most successful painter in oils as well as an engraver in stipple and mezzotint. His paintings of the "Death of Lincoln" and "Washington and his Generals," obtained great popularity. As a portrait painter fine examples of his work are "Dr. McCosh" of Princeton, "Henry Clay," etc. He also did a good deal of book illustrating. Thomas ...
— Scotland's Mark on America • George Fraser Black


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