The Mezzotint: History and Technique

By: Wax, Carol

Award-winning mezzotint engraver Carol Wax traces the art form's beginnings in 1642, through its growth as a vital British industry for reproducing paintings, to its demise after the invention of photography and resurgence as a means of original expression.

This newly revised edition explains various means for creating dark backgrounds on copper plates and rendering images reductively, or in the mezzotint manner.

Copious illustrations...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0764366858
• ISBN13: 9780764366857
• Release Date: November 2023
• Publisher: Schiffer Publishing
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 4.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.8" x 9.7" x 11.9"