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How to pronounce aquatint in English?

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Type Words
Type of engraving, etching
Type Words
Type of etching
Type Words
Type of etch

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A David Hockney etching and aquatint of a Panama hat is estimated at $5,000 to $7,000.
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Several scholars have suggested that mezzotint and aquatint were also used.
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He was a Belgian artist, and printmaker in etching and aquatint, 1896.
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By the 1830s, the aquatint process was largely superseded by lithography.
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As with his other series, later impressions show wear to the aquatint.
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Like etching, aquatint uses the application of acid to make the marks in the metal plate.
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Hand-coloured aquatint engraving by F. Hegi after Karl Bodmer.
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Like etching, aquatint technique involves the application of acid to make marks in a metal plate.
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An aquatint by Jacques Villon, done after an earlier painting by Pablo Picasso, dates from 1922 or 1923.
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  • An etching made by a process that makes it resemble a water color
  • Etch in aquatint
  • A method of etching that imitates the broad washes of a water color
  • Aquatint is an intaglio printmaking technique, a variant of etching.
  • (Aquatints) A method of rotogravure by which etching produces various shades of grey on a metal plate. In contrast to the etching method, an aquatint does not produce lines but areas; this is why the executed sheets resemble washed (that is to say coloured with watercolours) Indian ink drawings.
  • A print produced by the same technique as an etching, except that the areas between the etched lines are covered with a powdered resin that protects the surface from the biting process of the acid bath. ...
  • Another tonal process where a porous ground allows acid to penetrate to form a network of small dots. Any pure whites are stopped out entirely before etching begins, then the palest tints are bitten and stopped out, and so on as in etching. ...
  • A process in which spaces rather than lines are acid-etched onto a metal plate. Prints pulled from an aquatint plate show a tonal effect similar to a wash drawing or a watercolour.
  • An etching technique that creates subtle, solid areas of tone similar to those found in watercolor painting. ...