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▪ I. mezzotint, n.|ˈmɛdzəʊ-, -ts-, ˈmɛzəʊtɪnt|
[Anglicized form of mezzotinto.]
1. = mezzotinto 1. Obs. or arch.
1738Fritsch tr. Lairesse's Art Paint. 11 The half Tint which is laid next to the Extremity on the light Side and called Mezzo-tint. 1774‘J. Collier’ Mus. Trav. 28 Her back-ground; her mezzo-tints; and her clare-obscure were charming. 1880Shorthouse J. Inglesant (1882) II. vii. 162 Born in the dull twilight of the north, and having most of his mature years among the green mezzotints of Germany, he was now transplanted into a land of light and colour.
2. (= mezzotinto 2.) A method of engraving copper or steel plates for printing, in which the surface of the plate is first roughened uniformly, the ‘nap’ thus produced being afterwards completely or partially scraped away in order to produce the lights and half-lights of the picture, while the untouched parts of the plate give the deepest shadows. Also, a print produced by this process.
The invention has often been ascribed to Prince Rupert, who certainly practised the method, and made it known in England; but it is now established that he learned it from a Hessian colonel, Ludwig von Siegen, of whom an example is extant dated 1642.
1800J. Dallaway Anecd. Arts Eng. 474 note, There is a mezzotint taken from it by Faber. 1850W. Irving Goldsmith xxvii. 272 His portrait is to be engraved in mezzotint. 1886Swinburne Misc. 86 Aurora Raby is a graceful sketch in sentimental mezzotint.
b. attrib.
1753Hogarth Anal. Beauty xii. 94 Could mezzo-tint prints be wrought as accurately as those with the graver, they would come nearest to nature, as they are done without strokes or lines. 1839Penny Cycl. XV. 169/1 Previous to the mezzotint ground having been laid. 1870Ruskin Lect. Art v. 129 The arts of etching and mezzotint engraving.
c. Photogr. (See quot.)
18..Lea Photogr. 194 (Cent.) Others modify the effects and soften their paper prints by interposing a sheet of glass, of gelatin, of mica, or of tissue paper between the negative and the paper; in this way are made the so-called Mezzotint Prints.
▪ II. ˈmezzotint, v.
[f. mezzotint n.]
trans. To engrave in mezzotint.
1827Gentl. Mag. XCVII. ii. 3 Mezzotinting those on the motto. 1829Ibid. XCIX. i. 347 By this discovery the lithographer acquires a very valuable process for mezzotinting. 1881Blackw. Mag. Nov. 601 The picture was..afterwards mezzotinted very indifferently.
b. transf. and fig. To represent as if in mezzotint.
1854Lowell Jrnl. Italy Pr. Wks. 1890 I. 168 The..passengers..crawled out again,..their vealy faces mezzotinted with soot. 1870― Study Wind. (1871) 42 How many times I had lingered to study the shadows of the leaves mezzotinted upon the turf.
Hence ˈmezzotinted ppl. a., ˈmezzotinting vbl. n.
1877‘Rita’ Vivienne vi. ii, The room was furnished with quaint mezzo-tinted cinque-cento furniture. 1884Pall Mall G. 13 Mar. 3/2 For the mezzotinting the authorities have allowed Mr. Seymour Haden to remove the picture. |