Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An artist who works in mezzotint; an engraver of mezzotints.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who engraves in mezzotint.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who
engraves inmezzotint .
Etymologies
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Examples
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First female mezzotinter of the Revolutionary Era.
Terribly Intimate Portraits Noel Coward 1936
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She dominated Chopin, as she had dominated Jules Sandeau, Calmatta the mezzotinter, De Musset,
Chopin : the Man and His Music James Huneker 1890
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Quincey in opium reveries, Poe and Baudelaire are among the writers who seem nearest to the English mezzotinter.
Promenades of an Impressionist James Huneker 1890
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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 James Huneker 1890
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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 James Huneker 1890
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The English mezzotinter John Martin must have studied him closely, also Gustave Doré.
Promenades of an Impressionist James Huneker 1890
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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 James Huneker 1890
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