Aquatint is a kind of archaic printing technique, which produces an effect resembling a watercolor from a plate etched with nitric acid. Its use began in the late 1700s and continued throughout the ...

On display at the National Gallery of Art, an 18th-century print has the emotional resonance of a meme. Artist Henry Tresham’s 1784 illustration from “The Adventures of Sappho” depicts the Greek poet ...

Artist Beth Weintraub explains what aquatint is Artist Beth Weintraub is taking etching to a whole new level and shows us what an aquatint is.

50 x 55 x 2 in. (127 x 139.7 x 5.1 cm.) The iconic 'Spot Series' is one of Hirst's most recognizable themes, as the universally appealing - near perfect symmetry and use of color theory form around ...

Aquatint Worlds: Travel, Print, and Empire, by Douglas Fordham Chloe Chard is intrigued by an account of the short-lived fashion for lavishly illustrated hand-coloured travel books Published on ...

Aquatint flourished outside the official circles of European art academies in the hands of three kinds of artists—professional printmakers, amateurs (art lovers), and peintre-graveurs ...

“A Bower in the Arsacides” (1993), lithograph, etching, aquatint, relief, collagraph on white TGL handmade paper, 58 1/4 x 49 5/8 inches (all images courtesy Anders Wahlstedt Fine Art) Herman Melville ...

Jean Fautrier The box Etching and aquatint in colors on old japan Etching and aquatint in colors Prints & Graphic Art Height 29 Length 36 cm Signed, III/ XXV Literature Estimate Subscribers only ...

¡Qué guerrero! (What a Warrior!) is an etching by Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (Spanish, 1746–1828) from his series Los Disparates (The Follies), also known as Proverbios (Proverbs). Goya ...

APPRAISER: This is an aquatint, as you rightly said. This is the work he's known for. He's known as a printmaker, most of the awards he received over the decades were for his printmaking. APPRAISER: ...

"In the late 18th century, British artists embraced the medium of aquatint for its ability to produce prints with rich and varied tones that became even more stunning with the addition of color. At ...