1) Art medium 2) Art method used by MC Escher 3) Art of the Dutch Golden Age 4) Copper engraving 5) Print
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Mezzotint is a printmaking process of the intaglio family, technically a drypoint method. It was the first tonal method to be used, enabling half-tones to be produced without using line- or dot-based techniques like hatching, cross-hatching or stipple. Mezzotint achieves tonality by roughening the plate with thousands of little dots made by a meta...
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method of copper engraving with even gradation of tones
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• (v. t.) To engrave in mezzotint. • (n.) A manner of engraving on copper or steel by drawing upon a surface previously roughened, and then removing the roughness in places by scraping, burnishing, etc., so as to produce the requisite light and shade. Also, an engraving so produced.
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a method of engraving a metal plate by systematically and evenly pricking its entire surface with innumerable small holes that will hold ink and, ... [6 related articles]
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A distinctive form of engraving, richly black and textured, in which the plate is worked from dark to light.
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Print produced by a method of etching in density of tone rather than line, popular in the 18th and 19th centuries when it was largely used for the reproduction of paintings, especially portraits. A...
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Random dot-pattern halftone screen or a method of engraving a plate to produce variations in tone.
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The entire surface of the copper plate is roughened with a tool called a rocker, and then areas are scraped or burnished to produce different textures that are more or less receptive to ink; rough areas retain the ink and form the shaded parts of the design, while the smooth, polished sections remain ink-free.
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Mez'zo·tint noun [ Confer French
mezzo- tinto .] A manner of engraving on copper or steel by drawing upon a surface previously roughened, and then removing the roughness in places by scraping, burnishing, etc., so as to produce the requisite light and shade. Also, an engraving so produced.
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A method of engraving on copper or steel that reproduces tones through roughening the surface of the plate with a toothed instrument, scraping the burr thus raised, and burnishing to secure variations of light; a print made by this process
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A relief printing method used in intaglio printing that reverses the engraving process. A metal plate is abraded with a special tool and is made to have an overall burr. It would print a solid soft black. The design is then made by smoothing the surface with a burnisher so that it will not print in the burnished areas. The name comes from the combi...
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Mezzotint is a particular manner of engraving on copper or steel in imitation of painting in Indian ink, the lights and gradations being scraped and burnished out of a prepared dark ground. The surface of the plate is first completely covered with minute incisions, so that it would give in this condition a uniform black impression. The design is th...
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Mezzotint is a method of engraving on copper or steel.
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n] - print produced by an engraving that has been scraped to represent light or shade
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A form of engraving where the metal printing plate is indented by rocking a toothed metal tool across the surface. Each pit holds ink, and if printed at this stage the image would be solid black. The printmaker works from dark to light by gradually rubbing down or burnishing the rough surface to various degrees of smoothness to reduce the ink-holdi...
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noun print produced by an engraving that has been scraped to represent light or shade
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Print produced by a method of etching in density of tone rather than line, popular in the 18th and 19th centuries when it was largely used for the reproduction of paintings, especially portraits. A copper or steel plate is roughened with a finely-toothed tool known as a `rocker` to raise an even, overall burr (rough edge), which will ...
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