The mezzotint : history and technique / Carol Wax
Author(s): Wax, Carol, 1953-
Library Item Details
- Main Title
- The mezzotint : history and technique
- Author(s)
- Wax, Carol, 1953-
- Publisher
- London : Thames and Hudson, 1990
- Collation
- 296 pages : illustrations (some color)
29 cm - ISBN
- 050023583X
- Dewey Class
- 766.209
- Contents
- Part 1. The early history of mezzotint -- Dutch mezzotints and the growth of mezzotint in England -- The great age of mezzotint -- The status of mezzotint in the art world of Eighteenth-century England -- Mezzotint and the business of publishing -- The development of mezzotint in the Eighteenth-century marketplace -- Mezzotints abroad -- The next wave: the age of steel -- Publishing and the economics of steel -- Mezzotint on steel: the age of eclecticism -- The demise of the reproductive-mezzotint industry -- The rise of the original mezzotint -- Part 2. Plate preparation -- Platework -- Proofing and printing -- Alterations: mistakes and corrections -- Special effects, mixed methods, and alternative grounding techniques -- Color -- Final steps: editioning -- List of suppliers.
- Language
- English
- Subject
- Mezzotint engraving -- Technique
- BRN
- 9782
Notes
- Gift of Nirmala Dutt Shanmughalingam's Estate.
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Rotunda Library & Archive
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