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Aquatint

noun
1.
An etching made by a process that makes it resemble a water color.
2.
A method of etching that imitates the broad washes of a water color.





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"Aquatint" Quotes from Famous Books



... singular specimen of old art as briefly and perspicuously as I am able. It consists of an impression, in pale black ink—resembling very much that of aquatint, of a subject cut upon copper, or brass, which is about seventeen inches in height (the top being a little cut away) and about ten inches six-eighths in width. The upper part of the impression is in the shape of an obtusely pointed, or perhaps rather semicircular, gothic window—and ...
— A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Three • Thomas Frognall Dibdin


Words linked to "Aquatint" :   etching, artistic creation, engraving, etch, art, artistic production


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