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‖ mezzotinto, n. and a.|meddzoˈtinto|
Also 7 metzo-tincto, mezo tinto, mascy tinter, 8 met(t)zotinto, messo-tinto.
[It.: mezzo half, tinto tint.]
†1. In the Italian sense: A half-tint. Obs.
1660A. Durer Revived 18 Take a print done in Metzo-Tincto. 1739E. Carter tr. Algarotti on Newton's Theory (1742) II. 25 Neither Correggio, Titian, nor his rival Rosalba, did ever unite and shade their Metzo Tintoes with so much Exactness to form the Oval of a Face. 1787P. Beckford Let. Italy (1805) I. 437 The Mosaic of the floor..was improved and finished by Beccafumi in 1500, who made use of yellow marble as a mezzotinto. 1788Burke Sp. agst. W. Hastings Wks. XVI. 224 You will see, by this letter, that he [Hastings] kept his accounts in all colours, black, white, and mezzotinto: that he kept them in all languages, in Persian, in Bengallee, [etc.].
2. = mezzotint n. 2.
1661Evelyn Diary 21 Feb., Prince Rupert first shewed me how to grave in Mezzo Tinto. 1665Pepys Diary 5 Nov., Mr. Evelyn..showed me..the whole secret of mezzo⁓tinto. 1669A. Browne Ars Pictoria 110 The Manner or Way of Mezo Tinto. 1688R. Holme Armoury iii. 156/1 Mascy Tinter..is a New and Late Invention of taking from a Plate any form or shape..by smooty shadows. 1715Hearne Collect. (O.H.S.) V. 104 The picture that is done in Mezzotinto of him. 1727Swift Let. to Gay 23 Nov., Get me likewise Polly's Messo-tinto. 1780Newgate Cal. V. 204 The prisoner..was indicted for causing to be engraved and cut in mezzo-tinto, on a plate of copper, a blank promissory note, containing the word twenty in white letters, on a black ground. 1883S. C. Hall Retrospect II. 226 Martin ‘scraped’ in mezzo-tinto the major part of the many engraved plates he produced.
b. attrib. and Comb.
1688G. Parker & J. Stalker Treat. Japanning, etc. (title-p.), The Method of Guilding.., with the Art..of Painting Mezzo-tinto-Prints. 1697Mezzo-Tinto Graving [see melanochalcographer]. 1745Daily Advertiser 1 Oct. 3/3 A Metzotinto Print of that worthy Prelate Dr. Hough, late Bishop of Worcester. 1797Encycl. Brit. (ed. 3) XI. 687/2 Edial..became a mezzotinto painter. 1812R. H. in Examiner 28 Dec. 828/1 Mr. Meyer's ability in mezzotinto scraping..ranks with the most eminent. 1825C. Turner in Phil. Mag. LXV. 427 The deficiencies..in mezzotinto engraving. 1839Penny Cycl. XV. 169/1 The mezzotinto ground being thus laid. 1845Darwin Voy. Nat. xv. (1873) 329 The sky..appeared like a mezzotinto engraving.
fig.a1788N. Cotton A Fable 34 Baxter, with apostolic grace, Display'd his metzotinto face; While here and there some luckier saint Attain'd to dignity of paint.
Hence ˈmezzotinto v. = mezzotint v.
a1846Gentl. Mag. cited in Worcester (1846). |