mezzotint
noun
a method of engraving on copper or steel by burnishing or scraping away a uniformly roughened surface.
mezzotinter
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a word derived from
mezzotint.
Example Sentences
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Coleridge in Kubla Khan, De Quincey in opium reveries, Poe and Baudelaire are among the writers who seem nearest to the English mezzotinter.
From Promenades of an Impressionist by James Huneker
Then came Michael de Bourges the learned counsel, Calmatto the mezzotinter, Delacroix the artist, De Musset the poet, and Chopin the musician.
From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 14 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Musicians by Elbert Hubbard
She dominated Chopin, as she had dominated Jules Sandeau, Calmatta the mezzotinter, De Musset, Franz Liszt, Delacroix, Michel de Bourges—I have not the exact chronological order—and later Flaubert.
From Chopin : the Man and His Music by James Huneker
John Ruskin denied merit to the mezzotinter, and so it is to-day that if you go to our print-shops you will seldom find one of his big or little plates.
From Promenades of an Impressionist by James Huneker
The engraver evokes colour by his cunning interplay of line and cross hatching; the mezzotinter by his disposition of dark masses and white spaces.
From Promenades of an Impressionist by James Huneker
