The present copy is illustrated by the insertion of over two hundred selected portraits, including manymezzotints and plates printed in colours.
Photo-mezzotints were taken from these in gelatinous inks, 1860, by J.
In addition to the paintings there is a large and valuable collection of rare engravings, both in mezzotints and in line.
There are excellent essays in Mezzotints in Modern Music by Huneker; in Streatfield's volume Modern Composers and in Mason's From Grieg to Brahms.
Reynolds he engraved many of the best amongst the three hundred and sixty little mezzotints illustrating the works of Sir Joshua Reynolds which his master issued in his own name.
We may note 34 etchings by Piranesi and an important collection of English mezzotints by McArdell, S.
The most valuable treatise ever written on pianoforte studies is incorporated in Mr. Huneker's recent volume, "Mezzotints in Modern Music.
But the mezzotints will carry weight,' said Trevor, 'and a few good cloisonnes and enamelled snuff-boxes and bronzes will do no harm.
She was alone for the moment; and lying back in the warmth and fragrance of the room, she let her gaze rest lovingly on one of the English mezzotints over which a stray sunbeam quivered.
With her slenderness, her grace, her brilliant darkness, she seemed to him to belong in one of the English mezzotints on the wall.
Mostly mezzotints or aquatints, the prints sold in New York and New Orleans suggest that their authors only wished to appropriate as best they could the present fashions and methods of English engraving.
A glance at any recent aquatints and mezzotintsor into a new book of etchings, discovers nothing one does not seem to have seen a hundred times before.
There is an interesting discussion of this in James Huneker's book, "Mezzotints in Modern Music," page 285 et.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mezzotints" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
