mezzotint

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The pangrams from yesterday’s Spelling Bee were mezzotint and monetize.

From New York Times • Mar. 5, 2023

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

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

You'll see all the talents of the Richland artist in this 15-year retrospective — etching, drypoint, mezzotint, Chine colle and engraving.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 18, 2012

The Mixed Style is based on mezzotint, which, still forming the great mass of shading, is in this method combined with etching in the darker, and stipple in the more delicate parts.

From The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 2: Ebert to Estremadura by Various