mezzotint
Speech parts
1. mezzotint - Noun
2. mezzotint - Verb
Meaning
A manner of engraving on copper or steel by drawing upon a surface previously roughened, and then removing the roughness in places by scraping, burnishing, etc., so as to produce the requisite light and shade. Also, an engraving so produced.
To engrave in mezzotint.
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By 1868, Melville owned a Rembrandt mezzotint which he had framed in New York.
Other tools such as mezzotint rockers, roulets and burnishers are used for texturing effects.
Other tools such as mezzotint rockers, roulettes (a tool with a fine-toothed wheel) and burnishers (a tool used for making an object smooth or shiny by rubbing) are used for texturing effects.
Hardie himself also created the front cover illustration, rendering the famous original black-and-white photograph in ink using a Rapidograph technical pen and a mezzotint technique.
The mezzotint printmaking method was invented by Ludwig von Siegen (1609–1680).
This aside, Basire's style of line-engraving was of a kind held at the time to be old-fashioned compared to the flashier stipple or mezzotint styles.