| 单词 | mezzotint |
| 例句 | Yet another artist, forgotten now, who was well known during his lifetime — in 18th-century England — Smith was celebrated for his mezzotint prints and pastel portraits. At Armory’s Winter Antiques Show, Volumes of Variety 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z Densely worked in charcoal, his drawings resemble mezzotint prints, and they create a remarkable sculptural illusionism. Art Review: Sophisticates? Sketchbooks 2011-05-26T22:23:15Z Mark's fascination with the lost art of mezzotint led him to explore this most arduous way of making a printing plate. Dorothea Wight obituary 2013-06-10T11:48:42Z In the painting he gave her a madly un-Quakerish gown copied, right down to the rose in the décolletage, from a mezzotint print of an aristocratic portrait by Joshua Reynolds. Art Review: Metropolitan Museum of Art?s New American Wing Galleries - Review 2012-01-16T04:58:27Z Dorothea, too, adopted mezzotint in preference to aquatint for her own work, appreciating the subtle tonal gradations. Dorothea Wight obituary 2013-06-10T11:48:42Z With its potential for fine shading, fluidity of line and exacting detail, the mezzotint rivals the most intricate pencil, ink or charcoal drawing. November galleries: Exploring home and bloodlines 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z The mezzotint tells the story of the abduction of the infant heir from Anningley Hall, in MR James's "The Mezzotint". Review Christmas quiz 2012: the answers 2012-12-21T22:55:11Z In his mezzotint "A Walk in the Country," a pastoral knoll is surrounded and almost swamped by a spaghetti of traffic-jammed freeway ramps. Martyrdoms, border violence, a tree-eating android are all a part of 'What I See' 2010-07-15T20:59:00Z These captivating mezzotints offer a fascinating insight into our cultural history. British Museum's rare prints purchase offers glimpse of vanished paintings 2010-10-03T17:10:00Z The same year, it bought his mezzotint “Reflections,” a scene of boaters in Central Park with the buildings of Fifth Avenue in the background. My Grandfather Was a Famous Artist. He Also Made Greeting Cards. 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z Some of the lithographs, mezzotints, etchings and engravings in the show are astonishing. ‘Twisted Impressions’ show is ghoulish, thought-provoking 2016-10-11T04:00:00Z Look at James's "Casting the Runes", in which an advertisement in an "electric tram" brings the first shudder, or how a doll's house, a mezzotint or hotel bedsheets can become eldritch. Horror: a genre doomed to literary hell? 2012-11-07T11:47:02Z In a book stuffed with exquisite mezzotint plates, Wright also conceived of another revolutionary concept: a multigalaxy cosmos. In 'Cosmigraphics,' Our Changing Pictures of Space Through Time 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z Rescued from a trade to which he was destined, Hilton was allowed to learn drawing, and became a pupil of J. Raphael Smith, the mezzotint engraver. English Painters with a chapter on American painters 2012-03-27T02:00:26.437Z In this year he was elected A.R.A., and exhibited “The Gifts of the Fairies,” “The Daughter of the House,” “Absconded,” and a very fine portrait of Samuel Cousins, the mezzotint engraver. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 5 "Hinduism" to "Home, Earls of" 2012-03-25T02:00:05.717Z He executed also a few mezzotint plates of reasonable importance, and some etchings. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" 2012-03-15T02:00:32.250Z In addition to the paintings there is a large and valuable collection of rare engravings, both in mezzotints and in line. The Evolution of Photography With a Chronological Record of Discoveries, Inventions, etc., Contributions to Photographic Literature, and Personal Reminescences Extending over Forty Years 2012-02-15T03:00:30.577Z During later years Haden began to practise the sister art of mezzotint engraving, with a measure of the same success that he had already achieved in pure etching and in dry-point. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 7 "Gyantse" to "Hallel" 2011-12-26T03:00:11.613Z In 1765 he migrated to London and began work as a mezzotint engraver, having taught himself the technicalities of this art, and quickly rose to a position in absolutely the front rank of British engravers. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" 2011-12-05T03:00:51.527Z Several mezzotints of Watts' pictures hung on the walls and a collection of framed illustrations of the Arabian Nights, by Dulac. The Sins of the Children A Novel 2011-10-09T02:00:27.520Z Troost worked in oil, pastel, and gouache with equal facility; and produced many excellent mezzotints and etchings. The Standard Galleries - Holland 2011-09-06T02:00:08.153Z I saw several of the prints, both in process of development and complete; and anything more like rich, soft, and brilliant impressions of a fine mezzotint engraving I never saw, by any process of photography. The Evolution of Photography With a Chronological Record of Discoveries, Inventions, etc., Contributions to Photographic Literature, and Personal Reminescences Extending over Forty Years 2012-02-15T03:00:30.577Z Some of his mezzotints are: “An Early Riser,” a stag seen through the morning mists, “Grayling Fishing” and “A Salmon Pool on the Spey.” Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 7 "Gyantse" to "Hallel" 2011-12-26T03:00:11.613Z There were besides "fine mezzotints, a great variety of maps, cheap pictures engraved on copper plate of all sorts of birds, beasts, fishes, fruits, flowers etc., useful to such as would learn to draw." Benjamin Franklin; Self-Revealed, Volume II (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings 2011-08-16T02:00:39.793Z His pictures are familiar to many who have not seen all the originals, through David Lucas's mezzotints. Constable 2011-08-02T02:00:26.593Z C. G. Lewis was both a line and mezzotint engraver. Engraving for Illustration Historical and Practical Notes 2011-07-19T02:00:23.283Z This relief, possessing a suitable grain, could, by hydraulic pressure, be made to transfer its minutest details to metal without any loss to fineness, so giving a plate possessing all the properties of a mezzotint. Photogravure 2011-06-19T02:00:24.663Z The most notable living etchers are chiefly found in England, and include Sir Frank Short, famous also for his mezzotints; D. Y. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 3: Estremoz to Felspar 2011-04-14T02:00:59.373Z A revival of mezzotint owes much to Sir Frank Short. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 2: Ebert to Estremadura 2011-04-14T02:00:56.200Z The first series of twenty mezzotints was published in 1833 under the title, "Various Subjects of Landscape, characteristic of English Scenery, principally intended to display the Phenomena of the Chiar'oscuro of Nature." Constable 2011-08-02T02:00:26.593Z Description.—The mezzotint process of engraving may be described in a very few sentences. Engraving for Illustration Historical and Practical Notes 2011-07-19T02:00:23.283Z For, before noon, on opening the back of a mezzotint of the “Fighting Temeraire,” he found a book, large, flat, and ivory-white. The Late Tenant 2011-03-28T02:00:25.153Z Dry-point, etching proper, and engraving proper are often combined in one plate; and a mixture of etching with mezzotint or aquatint is not uncommon. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 3: Estremoz to Felspar 2011-04-14T02:00:59.373Z The Mixed Style is based on mezzotint, which, still forming the great mass of shading, is in this method combined with etching in the darker, and stipple in the more delicate parts. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 2: Ebert to Estremadura 2011-04-14T02:00:56.200Z Her father, George Raphael Ward, a mezzotint engraver and miniature painter, also married an artist who was an extremely clever miniature painter. Forty Years of 'Spy' 2011-03-04T03:00:57.237Z The leading or essential lines of each picture were etched, probably by Turner himself, and the mezzotint added by other engravers. Engraving for Illustration Historical and Practical Notes 2011-07-19T02:00:23.283Z “It was fastened into the back of a picture, a mezzotint of Turner’s.” The Late Tenant 2011-03-28T02:00:25.153Z In these etching merely provides the ground plan for the use of mezzotint, or, more rarely, aquatint. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 3: Estremoz to Felspar 2011-04-14T02:00:59.373Z By this combination a plate will produce a larger number of good impressions than it would if it were done entirely in mezzotint. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 2: Ebert to Estremadura 2011-04-14T02:00:56.200Z William Ward, the mezzotint engraver, whose works are fetching great sums to-day, encouraged his younger brother, and James held to his decision. Forty Years of 'Spy' 2011-03-04T03:00:57.237Z Another curious fact concerning mezzotint engraving is that it has ever been the art of the dilettanti. Engraving for Illustration Historical and Practical Notes 2011-07-19T02:00:23.283Z Line-engraving is now practically obsolete, while etching and mezzotint have recently come more and more to the front. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z Most of the plates are in proof state, and at page 112 is a brilliant impression of the mezzotint of General Wolfe by Spooner after Smith. A Catalogue of Books in English Later than 1700 (Vol 1 of 3) Forming a portion of the library of Robert Hoe 2011-02-16T03:00:36.047Z The present copy is illustrated by the insertion of over two hundred selected portraits, including many mezzotints and plates printed in colours. A Catalogue of Books in English Later than 1700 (Vol 2 of 3) Forming a portion of the library of Robert Hoe 2011-02-16T03:00:34.387Z Large paper copy, with one hundred portraits and views inserted, including mezzotints after Reynolds, a large number of proofs before letters and on India paper. A Catalogue of Books in English Later than 1700 (Vol 3 of 3) Forming a portion of the library of Robert Hoe 2011-02-16T03:00:32.387Z The metal work had been ornamented with an engraved design, and the ground formed by corrosion in conjunction with the engraved lines suggested an idea from which von Sigen subsequently developed the mezzotint process. Engraving for Illustration Historical and Practical Notes 2011-07-19T02:00:23.283Z Hamerton said, will not see or think like an etcher, nor an etcher like an engraver in mezzotint. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z The English portrait painters were quick to recognize that the mezzotint process with its delicacy of tone and beautiful, velvety quality was admirably suited to the reproduction of their works. Handbook of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts 2011-02-15T03:00:17.853Z First edition, with mezzotint portrait of Sheridan by C. Turner after Reynolds, and a facsimile. A Catalogue of Books in English Later than 1700 (Vol 2 of 3) Forming a portion of the library of Robert Hoe 2011-02-16T03:00:34.387Z A number of fine proof plates, coloured and mezzotint engravings have been added. A Catalogue of Books in English Later than 1700 (Vol 3 of 3) Forming a portion of the library of Robert Hoe 2011-02-16T03:00:32.387Z When mezzotint engraving was first introduced into England, the famous artists, Reynolds and Gainsborough, had reached the summit of their fame. Engraving for Illustration Historical and Practical Notes 2011-07-19T02:00:23.283Z Nor does Tieck indicate in any way the "Gallery's" sparing use of the increasingly popular mezzotint. Tieck's Essay on the Boydell Shakspere Gallery 2011-01-14T03:00:49.540Z Reynolds is said to have employed, under his supervision, one hundred mezzotint engravers in the reproduction of his portraits. Handbook of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts 2011-02-15T03:00:17.853Z Some of the plates are on India paper, two are mezzotints, one a private plate, and all are selected impressions. A Catalogue of Books in English Later than 1700 (Vol 2 of 3) Forming a portion of the library of Robert Hoe 2011-02-16T03:00:34.387Z Even this unprecedented price for a mezzotint portrait was exceeded on the 30th of April 1901, when an example of the first published state of “Mrs Carnac,” after Reynolds, by J.R. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 6 "Armour Plates" to "Arundel, Earls of" Artistic Qualities.—Although capable of most charming effects, the mezzotint process never became a really serious menace to line engraving, with its firm and expressive outlines and peculiarly lustrous textures. Engraving for Illustration Historical and Practical Notes 2011-07-19T02:00:23.283Z This process, as you see, is very accommodating; but it is too much like mezzotint or aquatint, and, furthermore, it can only be applied in flat tints, without modelling. A Treatise on Etching English mezzotints are well represented in our collection. Handbook of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts 2011-02-15T03:00:17.853Z Two portraits of Constable, lithographs on India paper, and mezzotints of "Spring," "Little Roxalana," and "Hampstead Heath;" the last two being added. A Catalogue of Books in English Later than 1700 (Vol 2 of 3) Forming a portion of the library of Robert Hoe 2011-02-16T03:00:34.387Z In other rooms hung the original pictures of hackneyed mezzotints; and how rare they looked now with their velvety pigments of emerald and purple, of orange, cinnabar and scarlet glowing in the tempered sunlight! Plashers Mead A Novel Turner was engaged upon the series of pictures for his Liber Studiorum when he suddenly realised the value of mezzotint engraving. Engraving for Illustration Historical and Practical Notes 2011-07-19T02:00:23.283Z A man may be an excellent printer of line engravings and mezzotints, and yet may be totally unfit to print an etching. A Treatise on Etching A Literary Offering for all seasons, illustrated with 8 fine steel mezzotint engravings by the first artists. History of Cuba; or, Notes of a Traveller in the Tropics Being a Political, Historical, and Statistical Account of the Island, from its First Discovery to the Present Time We live in a rum age of music without airs, stories without incident, pictures without beauty, American wood engravings that should have been etchings, and dry-point etchings that ought to have been mezzotints. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 24 (of 25) They are to be sketches in chiaroscuro, which will afterward be engraved in mezzotint. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 8, January, 1851 The fact that Sir Joshua Reynolds, West, Romney, and other famous artists allowed their paintings to be reproduced by the mezzotint process, is sufficient proof of their appreciation of its power. Engraving for Illustration Historical and Practical Notes 2011-07-19T02:00:23.283Z Stuttgart, oddly enough, is a centre for all the engraving, etching, and mezzotint sales. Ivory Apes and Peacocks An elegant quarto volume, printed in superb style, and embellished with 13 elegant steel mezzotint engravings. History of Cuba; or, Notes of a Traveller in the Tropics Being a Political, Historical, and Statistical Account of the Island, from its First Discovery to the Present Time A large and distinguished company is expected to grace the mezzotint hall of her ladyship's new mansion in Belgravia on the occasion. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, 1890.05.10 My father had been always a diffident man; he collected mezzotints and avoided people. Wild Oranges You will see that it is composed of a firm etching in line, with mezzotint 74 shadow laid over it. The Elements of Drawing In Three Letters to Beginners It has also been suggested with considerable likelihood that mezzotints after portraits by Sir Joshua Reynolds had a considerable effect upon him. Raeburn The designs are gems of drawing and conception, and the mezzotint is admirably adapted to the style of drawing and subject. Gycia A Tragedy in Five Acts The precious mezzotint portraits, mostly of his own collecting, regarded him urbanely from the walls. The Rough Road Farther on he narrowly escaped knocking down a heavily framed picture—another, he thought, of Lichfield Stope’s mezzotints—but he caught it, left it hanging crazily awry. Wild Oranges You are not exactly a mezzotint yourself," Arthur retorted, "and I'm not sure that you have any particular qualities yet. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, September 16, 1914 I never said that mezzotint ignored light and shade, or ought to do so. Ariadne Florentina Six Lectures on Wood and Metal Engraving No chintzes were so smartly calendered as hers, and on the walls were mezzotints of the ladies whom Sir Joshua had painted. The Explorer You will see that it is composed of a firm etching in line, with mezzotint shadow laid over it. The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing Colored or plain engravings, photographs, lithographs, water colors, oil colors, crayons, steel plates, newspaper cuts, mezzotints, pencil, writing, show cards, labels, or, in fact, anything. The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources At best it was a stupid fancy, and was responsible for the destruction of many fine old mezzotints and coloured prints. Chats on Old Lace and Needlework What shall we say of mezzotint engraving, for instance, in which, though indeed furrows and cavities are produced mechanically as a ground, the artist's work is in effacing them? Ariadne Florentina Six Lectures on Wood and Metal Engraving A mezzotint lithograph by Legros was the only pictorial decoration of the walls, which were plain, and seemed not to have been distempered for many years. Recollections of Dante Gabriel Rossetti The rare mezzotints, stipples, and delicate line engravings, to say nothing of the more valuable colour prints, often realize far more than the books themselves. Chats on Household Curios Mr. Pelham was a portrait painter and a mezzotint engraver of unusual merit. A History of Art for Beginners and Students Painting, Sculpture, Architecture 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 Vigorous mezzotints from pictures of the great masters, which originally present noble contrasts of light and shade. Ariadne Florentina Six Lectures on Wood and Metal Engraving 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 Its Illustrations excel those of any other Magazine, each number containing a superb Steel Engraving, either mezzotint or line, beside the Fashion Plate; and, in addition, numerous other Engravings, Wood Cuts, Patterns, &c., &c. Helen and Arthur or, Miss Thusa's Spinning Wheel These Portraits have the appearance of beautiful mezzotint engravings, with the superior accuracy which Sun-painting must insure. Notes and Queries, Number 182, April 23, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. The durability of a mezzotint plate depends entirely upon the pressure put upon the rocker, and the depth to which it penetrates the copper. The Building of a Book A Series of Practical Articles Written by Experts in the Various Departments of Book Making and Distributing The prints were done in a combination of media—etching and mezzotint with relief blocks in either wood or metal—and were outside the woodcut tradition, but they attracted attention to the old process. John Baptist Jackson 18th-Century Master of the Color Woodcut It was very neatly and adequately furnished, with clocks in each of the ground-floor rooms, sundry framed mezzotints hanging on the walls, and a goodly show of neatly-kept crockery. France and the Republic A Record of Things Seen and Learned in the French Provinces During the 'Centennial' Year 1889 The unfortunate part of this was, that, on the plate in question, the passage was really engraved in Greek characters under the mezzotint. Art in England Notes and Studies "The American Review: A Whig Journal" was a creditable magazine for the time, double-columned, printed on good paper with clear type, and illustrated by mezzotint portraits. The Raven On account of the length of time necessary for the laying of the ground and the scraping of the plate, many artists hesitate to attempt mezzotint plates. The Building of a Book A Series of Practical Articles Written by Experts in the Various Departments of Book Making and Distributing In mezzotint the Parisians have not a single artist particularly deserving of commendation. A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Two He denied himself regretfully a tiny mezzotint of the Raphael "Madonna," which he coveted for his mantelpiece. The Double Life Of Mr. Alfred Burton Sir Joshua had laid it down as a fixed principle that, to create the beautiful, the eyes ought always to be in mezzotint. Art in England Notes and Studies They found rooms, lordly rooms, which Trevor furnished in a stately manner, hanging a selection of his mezzotints on the walls—ladies of old years, after Romney, Reynolds, Hoppner, and the rest. The Disentanglers There are very few men in this country to-day who do mezzotint engraving, which, considering the results to be obtained, seems somewhat surprising. The Building of a Book A Series of Practical Articles Written by Experts in the Various Departments of Book Making and Distributing They used to show his room, regularly marked, as I have seen it, 'Sternes's Room, No. 31,' with its mezzotint, after Sir Joshua, hung over the chimney-piece. A Day's Tour A Journey through France and Belgium by Calais, Tournay, Orchies, Douai, Arras, Béthune, Lille, Comines, Ypres, Hazebrouck, Berg All of these portraits have been made familiar to us by the most meritorious mezzotints of them by Cousins. Some Old Time Beauties After Portraits by the English Masters, with Embellishment and Comment The sootiness of mezzotint is dangerous—in bad hands it is the "black art" of Prince Rupert, though the term was applied to a metal of the prince's invention, not to his discovery of mezzotint. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 346, August, 1844 He began to wander round the room, looking at the mezzotints. The Disentanglers 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 With her slenderness, her grace, her brilliant darkness, she seemed to him to belong in one of the English mezzotints on the wall. One Man in His Time She had painted it in a pale-brown mezzotint, which was like nothing in nature, but seemed suitable of all others for the embodiment of the classic fable. Bressant If it will admit of any adventitious aid, it may perhaps be, in a very subordinate degree, mezzotint and aquatint. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 346, August, 1844 "Do you care for mezzotints?" she asked him. The Little Red Chimney Being the Love Story of a Candy Man Etchings, mezzotints, and steel engravings are still occasionally used in the illustration of fine books, and brief descriptions of how they are made will be of interest. The Building of a Book A Series of Practical Articles Written by Experts in the Various Departments of Book Making and Distributing She was alone for the moment; and lying back in the warmth and fragrance of the room, she let her gaze rest lovingly on one of the English mezzotints over which a stray sunbeam quivered. One Man in His Time It is printed in excellent style, and embellished with a mezzotint engraving. True Riches Or, Wealth Without Wings Thus Landseer finds entrance, through woodcuts and mezzotints, into every dwelling. Thrift Ever so many of the Reynolds and Romney portraits were reproduced in mezzotint. The Little Red Chimney Being the Love Story of a Candy Man 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 She wanted to know the difference between a mezzotint and a stipple print. One Man in His Time They fraternized with a phrenological harlequin who was a connoisseur in mezzotint and falconry. 1001 Questions and Answers on Orthography and Reading There were bookcases, there were mezzotints, there were engravings of well-known pictures, and there were armchairs not covered with horsehair. The Dweller on the Threshold She glanced involuntarily across the studio where the others had gathered over the new collection of mezzotints, and at her glance Neville raised his head and smiled at her, and encountered Querida's expressionless gaze. The Common Law 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 From the wall of the best room the "Family of Horace Greeley," in mezzotint, looked down through clouded glass and a veneered frame. In the Footprints of the Padres Could this mezzotint, so small in size, so vast in its shadowy suggestiveness, have stirred Baudelaire to lines that shine with a metallic poisonous lustre? Promenades of an Impressionist 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 A mezzotint engraving of it was afterwards published by William Walker, son-in-law of the famous Samuel Reynolds. James Nasmyth: Engineer; an autobiography "I made a successful experiment in sandpaper mezzotint." Philip Gilbert Hamerton An Autobiography, 1834-1858, and a Memoir by His Wife, 1858-1894 It was a rather indifferent mezzotint, and an indifferent mezzotint is, perhaps, the worst form of engraving known. Ghost Stories of an Antiquary And there is that tiny mezzotint in which we find ourselves at the base of a rude little hill. Promenades of an Impressionist There are two mezzotint engravings by C. Turner. Musa Pedestris - Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes [1536 - 1896] Anne Oldfield From a mezzotint of a painting by J. Richardson. Henry Fielding: a Memoir A delicate suggestive mezzotint shaded the edges of his collar and cuffs, and from his heavy gold watch-chain depended a malachite seal of unusual greenness and brilliancy. An American Politician During breakfast nothing was said about the mezzotint by Williams, save that he had a picture on which he wished for Nisbet's opinion. Ghost Stories of an Antiquary Above all, the appeal of engraving, mezzotint, and etching is to the refined. Promenades of an Impressionist On the other side of the room were a likeness of Mr. Eaton in hunting array, with the dogs, and a mezzotint of the Deluge. Catharine Furze Engravings best suited to this style of painting are mezzotint or aquatint, though fine lithographs are used. Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets A few process "mezzotints" hung on the walls. In Secret The father, Mr Arthur Francis, was locally known as a talented amateur engraver in mezzotint. Ghost Stories of an Antiquary By a similar analogy the engraving or mezzotint might be described as a reversed picture. Promenades of an Impressionist Then there were photographs from the Greeks, and a mezzotint from Sir Joshua—all very English. Jacob's Room One gallery is entirely devoted to etchings, woodcuts, and mezzotints, and the standard maintained in this gallery is high. The Galleries of the Exposition Where he was original was not so much in his pictures but in the mezzotints, silver, china and objets d'art which he had collected for many years. Margot Asquith, an Autobiography - Two Volumes in One Interesting mezzotint: View of a manor-house, early part of the century. Ghost Stories of an Antiquary Indeed, the mezzotint by reason of its warm, more sympathetic, and ductile medium has always seemed more colourful in his plates than the most laboriously executed steel engravings. Promenades of an Impressionist There were bits of old china, pieces of tapestry, some rare prints, my choice collection of mezzotints, a picture or two of value—one a Lancret, a very dear possession. Simon the Jester Orchids, jade, majolica, wines, mezzotints, old silver, first editions, harps, copes, hookahs, cameos, enamels, black-letter folios, scarabaei—such things are beautiful and fascinating in themselves. Yet Again When Phyllis was leaving the house half an hour later, a man was just entering the first drawing room—a man with a face burnt to the color of an old mezzotint. Phyllis of Philistia The only item with which I am concerned was the rather large, black-framed mezzotint of which I have already quoted the short description given in Mr Britnell's catalogue. Ghost Stories of an Antiquary Yet no Dutchman ever painted so uncompromisingly, so close to the border line that divides the rigid definitions of old-fashioned photography—the "new" photography hugs closely the mellow mezzotint—and the vision of the painter. Promenades of an Impressionist There were three mezzotints on the walls, a dragon's-blood vase on the high, carved chimney-piece; the whole bore the unmistakable stamp of a fine, individual taste. Michael Could the diners have seen him, they would have known him by his resemblance to the mezzotint portrait that hung on the wall above him. Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story His face was not so oval, nor were his eyes so big, nor his lips so full, nor his hands so delicate, as they appeared in the mezzotint. Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story Under the mezzotint hung Hoppner's miniature of that lovely and ill-starred girl, with her soft dark eyes, and her curls all astray from beneath her little blue turban. Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story |
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