mezzotinter

“First female mezzotinter of the Revolutionary Era.”

Terribly Intimate Portraits

“She dominated Chopin, as she had dominated Jules Sandeau, Calmatta the mezzotinter, De Musset,”

Chopin : the Man and His Music

“Quincey in opium reveries, Poe and Baudelaire are among the writers who seem nearest to the English mezzotinter.”

Promenades of an Impressionist

“John Ruskin denied merit to the mezzotinter, and so it is to-day that if you go to our print-shops you will seldom find one of his big or little plates.”

Promenades of an Impressionist

“John Martin, painter, mezzotinter, man of gorgeous imagination, second to De Quincey or the author of Vathek, is to-day more forgotten than Beckford himself.”

Promenades of an Impressionist

“The English mezzotinter John Martin must have studied him closely, also Gustave Doré.”

Promenades of an Impressionist

“The engraver evokes colour by his cunning interplay of line and cross hatching; the mezzotinter by his disposition of dark masses and white spaces.”

Promenades of an Impressionist