mezzotint
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Organisers said the exhibition of mezzotint prints would be hosted at the Cornish gallery, Kestle Barton, and featured works by artist Sarah Gillespie.
From BBC ● Jun. 20, 2026
An eighteenth-century mezzotint of a bust of Galen, by John Faber after a drawing by Peter Paul Rubens.Credit:
From Nature ● Aug. 19, 2018
Yet another artist, forgotten now, who was well known during his lifetime — in 18th-century England — Smith was celebrated for his mezzotint prints and pastel portraits.
From New York Times ● Jan. 22, 2015
Look at James's "Casting the Runes", in which an advertisement in an "electric tram" brings the first shudder, or how a doll's house, a mezzotint or hotel bedsheets can become eldritch.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 7, 2012
This relief, possessing a suitable grain, could, by hydraulic pressure, be made to transfer its minutest details to metal without any loss to fineness, so giving a plate possessing all the properties of a mezzotint.
From Photogravure by Henry R. Blaney
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