Mezzotint

Scope note

Intaglio process in which the surface of the plate is methodically roughened with a rocker to produce a dark background; areas may then be lightened using various scrapers. Produces a printed image having a continuous tonal range. PRTT

This term has 4,633 records attributed within our system.

Term type

AAT
Technique
Material

Getty AAT term number

300053233

Broader Terms used

<engraving (printmaking process)>

Term used for

black manner
engraving, mezzotint
manière anglaise
manière noire
manner, black
mezzotint engraving

Created

13yrs ago

Connected records

Rev. Eliezer Cogan

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Cousins, Samuel
Painter: Phillips, Thomas (After)

Samuel Parr

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Turner, Charles
Publisher: Halls, John James
Painter: Halls, John James (After)

An image of Print

Joachim Murat, King of Naples

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Unknown

John Couch Adams

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Cousins, Samuel
Painter: Mogford, Thomas (After)

Sir Nathaniel Dance

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Turner, Charles
Publisher: Cribb, Robert
Painter: Westall, Richard (After)

Lady Juliana St Aubyn

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Ward, William
Painter: Opie, John (After)

Count Maurice John von Brühl

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Reynolds, Samuel William I
Printmaker: Annis, William T.

An image of Print

Revd Charles Simeon

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Say, William
Draughtsman: Jackson, John (After)

An image of Print

George Wheatley

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Reynolds, Samuel William I
Painter: Chandler, John Westbrooke (After)

William Marsh

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Turner, Charles
Painter: Strutt, Jacob George (After)

William Markham

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Ward, James, R.A.
Publisher: Boydell, John
Publisher: Boydell, Josiah
Painter: Romney, George (After)

John Peter Boileau

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Lupton, Thomas Goff

An image of Print

William Wordsworth

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Lupton, Thomas Goff
Painter: Haydon, Benjamin Robert (After)

An image of Print

Æsacus and Hesperie

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Turner, Joseph Mallord William
Publisher: Turner, Joseph Mallord William
Draughtsman: Turner, Joseph Mallord William (After)

An image of Print

Thomas Tomkins

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Turner, Charles
Painter: Reynolds, Joshua (After)

Rev. Joseph Proctor D.D., master of Catherine Hall

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Payne, G. T.
Painter: Unknown (After)

An image of Print

Charles Mayne Young

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Collen, Henry

An image of Print

Huntsmen in a wood

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Short, Frank, Sir
Draughtsman: Turner, Joseph Mallord William (After)
Publisher: Dunthorne, Robert

Robert Banks Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Young, John
Publisher: Young, John
Painter: Lawrence, Thomas (After)

An image of Print

Head of a peasant

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Strang, William

A rabbi

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Quilley, John P.
Painter: Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn (After)

The Rev.d C S Bird, M.A. F.L.A. Prebendary of Lincoln, Vicar of Gainsborough, and formerly Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge.

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Radclyffe, William
Painter: Radclyffe, William II (After)

Henry David Inglis

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Turner, Charles
Publisher: Hatton, David
Painter: Raeburn, Henry (After)

Richard Tattersall

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Giller, William
Publisher: Ackermann, Rudolph II
Painter: Hancock, Charles (After)

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