Definitions
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- noun A type of
picture drawn using ink applied with apen and abrush .
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Examples
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The pen-and-wash medium carefully delineates the tailoring of their garments.
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There are varied mezzotints of this picture by Hogarth himself still extant, and there is a pen-and-wash drawing of Sarah by Samuel Wale in the British Museum.
She Stands Accused 1935
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But it was this winter's study of the “Liber Studiorum” that started him on his own characteristic course; and while we have no pen-and-wash work of his before 1845 (except a few experiments after Prout), we find him now using the pen continually during the “Modern Painters” period.
The Life of John Ruskin Collingwood, W G 1911
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But it was this winter's study of the "Liber Studiorum" that started him on his own characteristic course; and while we have no pen-and-wash work of his before 1845 (except a few experiments after Prout), we find him now using the pen continually during the "Modern Painters" period.
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