mezzotint

• This is chiefly on account of the difficulty of the process, which is not an easy matter to explain in detail, and also on account of the secrecy with which all plate makers guard their processes The reproduction of a mezzotint or line-engraved print, when made by a good photogravure process, produces in most cases a print which cannot be detected from the original. —  The Building of a Book A Series of Practical Articles Written by Experts in the Various Departments of Book Making and Distributing
• In the work of an etcher like Whistler the impressions of the "first state," "second state," etc., are of considerable interest, as they show the progress of the man's work, but, except as an object of interest or as a curiosity, these prints can have no real value as they are unfinished work, simply showing the various stages in the making of a work of art A mezzotint is also usually made on a copper plate. —  The Building of a Book A Series of Practical Articles Written by Experts in the Various Departments of Book Making and Distributing
• If the face is to be a mezzotint, that part of the work is all rocked over, and then scraped down within the etched outline, when the flesh is modelled as in a regular mezzotint. —  The Building of a Book A Series of Practical Articles Written by Experts in the Various Departments of Book Making and Distributing
• These lines are ruled through a coating of wax, and then, by etching and stopping out, the required results are obtained This method of engraving is also giving place to process work, and in a few years more the steel engraved portrait will probably be a thing of the past PRINTING INTAGLIO PLATES By George W. H. Ritchie The method of printing etchings, mezzotint, and other intaglio plates is the same to-day as it was in the time of Rembrandt and Durer. —  The Building of a Book A Series of Practical Articles Written by Experts in the Various Departments of Book Making and Distributing
• Whether Hogarth did or did not do the sketch for the mezzotint engraving called "Lovat's Ghost on Pilgrimage" matters little. —  A History of the Four Georges, Volume II (of 4)

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