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| Carington Bowles (publisher) Bacchus and Ariadne ca. 1770-90 hand-colored mezzotint British Museum |
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| Carington Bowles (publisher) Jupiter and Antiope ca. 1770-85 hand-colored mezzotint British Museum |
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| Carington Bowles (publisher) after Jean-François de Troy David and Bathsheba ca. 1780-90 hand-colored mezzotint British Museum |
MEZZOTINT – an engraving technique developed in the seventeenth century which allows for the creation of prints with soft gradations of tone and rich and velvety blacks. The process involves indenting the metal printing plate by rocking a toothed metal tool across the surface. Each pit holds ink, and if printed at this stage the image would be solid black. However, the printmaker creates dark and light tones by gradually rubbing down or burnishing the rough surface to various degrees of smoothness to reduce the ink-holding capacity of areas of the plate. The technique became particularly popular in eighteenth-century England for reproducing portrait paintings.
– term note from the Tate Gallery, London
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| Carington Bowles (publisher) Cymon and Iphigenia 1783 hand-colored mezzotint British Museum |
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| Carington Bowles (publisher) Judgement of Paris ca. 1766-84 hand-colored mezzotint and etching British Museum |
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| Carington Bowles (publisher) Peter Delivered out of Prison ca. 1790 hand-colored mezzotint British Museum |
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| Carington Bowles (publisher) Vision of Jacob's Ladder ca. 1780-90 hand-colored mezzotint British Museum |
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| Carington Bowles (publisher) after Raphael Transfiguration of Christ ca. 1790 hand-colored mezzotint British Museum |
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| Carington Bowles (publisher) Father Bald-Pate's Absolution to his Fair Penitent ca. 1770-80 hand-colored mezzotint British Museum |
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| Carington Bowles (publisher) after Robert Dighton Life and Death contrasted, or, An Essay on Woman 1784 hand-colored mezzotint and engraving British Museum |
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| Carington Bowles (publisher) after Robert Dighton Life and Death contrasted, or, An Essay on Man 1784 hand-colored mezzotint and engraving British Museum |
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| Carington Bowles (publisher) The Double Attack, or, French Politeness not a Match for English Assurance ca. 1770-80 hand-colored mezzotint British Museum |
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| Carington Bowles (publisher) after Robert Dighton Tally Ho ca. 1786-90 hand-colored mezzotint British Museum |
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| Carington Bowles (publisher) after John Raphael Smith The Singing Bird 1781 hand-colored mezzotint British Museum |
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| Carington Bowles (publisher) after John Raphael Smith The Singing Bird 1781 hand-colored mezzotint British Museum |