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Definition of Mezzotinting
1. mezzotint [v] - See also: mezzotint
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mezzotinting
Literary usage of Mezzotinting
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. American Architect and Building News (1903)
"Several of his plates are powerful and cleverly managed, the mezzotinting is only
put where it is wanted, and there is little or no use of the scraper. ..."
2. Turner's Liber Studiorum: A Description and a Catalogue by William George Rawlinson (1906)
"Turner's mezzotinting is very different in its handling from that of the professional
engravers. In some cases this is very marked. ..."
3. The Connoisseur by George Colman, B. Thornton (1903)
"Remarkable has been the latter-day appreciation of the finest examples of
mezzotinting, after Sir J. Reynolds and his school ; in the instance of the ..."
4. The Gentleman's Magazine (1829)
"LITHOGRAPHIC mezzotinting. Mr. Brockedon, (whose large painting of the Deluge
was exhibited at the Academy last year, and is now before the public, ..."
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