aquatint

noun

aqua·tint | \ ˈa-kwə-ˌtint

, ˈä-\

Definition of aquatint

: a method of etching a printing plate so that tones similar to watercolor washes can be reproduced also : a print made from a plate so etched

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For decades, The Times’ New York bureau was filled with lithographs, aquatints and collages by the likes of Elaine de Kooning and Robert Rauschenberg. — Daniel Miller, latimes.com, "Five Picassos went missing from the L.A. Times. What happened to them?," 12 July 2018 Offered are a Carmel seascape by Paul Dougherty, a landscape by Johannes Janson, a Sol Le Witt aquatint and a charcoal drawing by David Nash. — Steven Wayne Yvaska, The Mercury News, "Stanford’s final Treasure Market benefits Cantor Arts Center," 1 Mar. 2017 Phillips holds a sale of prints and editions (April 18), the most interesting of which is a group of a hundred etchings and aquatints from the collection of the printer and engraver Piero Crommelynck. — The New Yorker, "Phillips: Prints and Editions," 8 Apr. 2017

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