mezzotint

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The clearest images are in a set of 1710 mezzotints, “The Four Indian Kings,” by the British printmaker John Simon.

From New York Times • Feb. 2, 2017

At first he borrowed poses and tony backgrounds from his step father's mezzotints, and tricks of color and modeling from his elders in Boston's portrait-painting fraternity.

From Time Magazine Archive

For every U. S. citizen who buys a painting or a piece of sculpture, probably 500 buy prints: etchings, engravings, mezzotints, woodcuts.

From Time Magazine Archive

He collected old mezzotints and caricatures, and would sit for hours with one of his scrapbooks in his lap, staring at the twisted faces and bright colors as if he were reading some racy tale.

From Time Magazine Archive

The first series of twenty mezzotints was published in 1833 under the title, "Various Subjects of Landscape, characteristic of English Scenery, principally intended to display the Phenomena of the Chiar'oscuro of Nature."

From Constable by Hind, C. Lewis (Charles Lewis)