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Definition of Mezzotints
1. mezzotint [v] - See also: mezzotint
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mezzotints
Literary usage of Mezzotints
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Fine Prints by Frederick Wedmore (1910)
"OF modern fashions in Print Collecting, the appreciation of mezzotints is assuredly
one of the healthiest, and—apart from the question of the very high ..."
2. How to Appreciate Prints by Frank Weitenkampf (1908)
"CHAPTER IV mezzotints MEZZOTINT is as different as possible from the media which
we have been considering. In pure mezzotint, there are no lines. ..."
3. George Morland and the Evolution from Him of Some Later Painters by John Trivett Nettleship (1898)
"Chalk cliffs are in the distance ; the tone of the whole is fine. The picture is
signed but undated. 2. SOME mezzotints, ETCHINGS AND ENGRAVINGS AFTER ..."
4. Constable by Mary (Sturge) Gretton (1905)
"CHAPTER VI THE LUCAS mezzotints ALLUSION has already been made to the fact that
in the year 1829 Constable began to prepare for the publication of a series ..."
5. George Morland: His Life and Works by Walter Gilbey, Edward William Dirom Cuming (1907)
"... process is that which renders Morland's work the greatest justice, and a large
proportion of the best engravings from his pictures are mezzotints. ..."
6. Byways of Collecting by Ethel Deane (1908)
"CHAPTER IX mezzotints The Art of Mezzotint—Early English ... —J. Raphael Smith—Other
Morland Engravers—Later mezzotints ONCE on the subject of mezzotints, ..."
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