aquatint

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Sean Scully; Untitled (Print #6), from the portfolio Enter Six; 1998; etching, aquatint, sugarlift, and spitbite; Smithsonian American Art Museum; Gift of the artist The upcoming exhibition of Sean Scully's prints puts me in mind of a conversation I had ...

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  1. noun A process of etching capable of producing several tones by varying the etching time of different areas of a copper plate so that the resulting print resembles the flat tints of an ink or wash drawing.
  2. noun An etching made by this process.

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  • Sean Scully; Untitled (Print #6), from the portfolio Enter Six; 1998; etching, aquatint, sugarlift, and spitbite; Smithsonian American Art Museum; Gift of the artist The upcoming exhibition of Sean Scully's prints puts me in mind of a conversation I had ... —  Eye Level
  • I won't waste time belaboring the obvious, that anyone with even a fleeting interest in American cinema (and Paul Newman) should aquatint themselves with "The Hustler" from 1961, as well as its follow-up 20 years later, "The Color of Money." —  The Taunton Gazette Home RSS
  • A first-edition, hand-colored, engraved John James Audubon aquatint of a Florida cormorant, printed in 1835 in London, is expected to bring $5,000 to $8,000. —  Expecting Rain
  • Also on view at Arader was an image befitting the Florida location, a John James Audubon aquatint engraving with original hand color of the "American Flamingo."
  • Assailants of the beaten director of Regional Inspectorate for Protection and Control of Public Health / RIPCPH / - Kustendil were aquatint with the route of the director,
 

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  1. French aquatinte, from Italian acquatinta : acqua, water (from Latin aqua; see aqua) + tinta, dyed (from Latin tincta, feminine past participle of tingere, to dye).

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  1. = French aquatinte, aqua-tinta, from Italian acqua tinta, literally dyed water: acqua, water (see aqua); tinta, feminine of tinto (from Latin tinctus), past participle of tingere, tignere, from Latin tingere, tint, tinge: see tint, tinge.
  2. from aquatint, n.
 

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/ˈeɪkwətɪnt/
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