mezzotinto

There is a mode of engraving called mezzotinto, which is somewhat easier of execution than the common mode, and produces a peculiar effect.

Charles I Makers of History Jacob Abbott 1841

She could copy prints, so that at a little distance you would scarcely know that the copy in stumped chalk was not a bad mezzotinto engraving.

The Newcomes 2006

Caskets of Loveliness, Beauty, as they way be called; glaring caricatures of flowers, singly, in groups, in flower-pots, or with hideous deformed little Cupids sporting among them; of what are called “mezzotinto,” pencil-drawings,

The Paris Sketch Book 2006

Shannon some mezzotinto prints of myself, and some more of my friends here, such as Burke, Johnson, Reynolds, and Colman.

The Life of Oliver Goldsmith 2004

By the bye, the publication of a splendid mezzotinto engraving of his likeness by Reynolds, was a great matter of glorification to Goldsmith, especially as it appeared in such illustrious company.

The Life of Oliver Goldsmith 2004

The sky, seen through the advanced guard, appeared like a mezzotinto engraving, but the main body was impervious to sight; they were not, however, so thick together, but that they could escape a stick waved backwards and forwards.

Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle 2003

The sky, seen through the advanced guard, appeared like a mezzotinto engraving, but the main body was impervious to sight; they were not, however, so thick together, but that they could escape a stick waved backwards and forwards.

Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle 2003

The iris of her large dark eye had the melting mezzotinto, which remains the last vestige of African ancestry, and gives that plaintive expression, so often observed, and so appropriate to that docile and injured race.

Clotel; or, The President's Daughter: A Narrative of Slave Life in the United States. By William Wells Brown, A Fugitive Slave, Author of "Three Years in Europe." With a Sketch of the Author's Life 1953

This picture has been recently wretchedly engraved in mezzotinto; all that is in the picture firm and hard, is in the print soft, fuzzy, and disagreeable.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 328, February, 1843 Various

Orford, Evelyn, and Vertue attribute to him the invention of mezzotinto engraving; but this has been disputed, and, we believe, disproved.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 352, January 17, 1829 Various