mezzotint

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• In 1982, she helped curate "The Jews in the Age of Rembrandt," a critically well-received show of engravings, etchings and mezzotints, at New York's Jewish Museum. Ruth Levine; artist
• In the other version of this etching, not mezzotinted by Ward, he is simply R.A.
• At first glance, Brockhurst's work may look like aquatints or mezzotints.
• Alfred Joseph Annedouche, a frequent engraver of large plates for Goupil, produced the mezzotint in 1873, two years after Bouguereau made the painting.
• This process involves etching, engraving, dry point, aquatint, mezzotint, linocut and wood block.
• For the mezzotint print, the surface is completely marked with a dense network of lines.
• A mezzotint plate produced fewer impressions than a line engraving, but the engravers bewailed its invention, as being an easier and more facile process.
• The downside of mezzotinting is that the plate does not last very long, for the depth of the pits was very shallow and a few dozen impressions could wear a plate out.
• This second part is about the intaglio printmaking techniques - engraving, drypoint, etching, aquatint, stipple, mezzotint.
• Many of the pictures in this exhibition show his desire for simplicity, especially in the watercolours and mezzotints, which results in some of the first great Impressionist images.