Mezzotint

By 1868, Melville owned a Rembrandt mezzotint which he had framed in New York.

Hardie himself also created the front cover illustration, rendering the famous original black-and-white photograph in ink using a Rapidograph technical pen and a mezzotint technique.

In December 1986, BBC2 broadcast partially dramatized readings by the actor Robert Powell of "The Mezzotint", "The Ash-Tree", "Wailing Well", "Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad" and "The Rose Garden".

Mezzotint by John Sartain Wesley died on 2 March 1791, in his 87th year.

Mezzotint by Samuel William Reynolds Apart from his disciplined upbringing, a rectory fire which occurred on 9 February 1709, when Wesley was five years old, left an indelible impression.

Mezzotint—from the Italian mezzo ("half") and tinta ("tone")—is a "dark manner" form of printmaking, which requires artists to work from dark to light.

Mezzotint main An intaglio variant of engraving in which the image is formed from subtle gradations of light and shade.

Other tools such as mezzotint rockers, roulets and burnishers are used for texturing effects.

Other tools such as mezzotint rockers, roulettes (a tool with a fine-toothed wheel) and burnishers (a tool used for making an object smooth or shiny by rubbing) are used for texturing effects.

The mezzotint printmaking method was invented by Ludwig von Siegen (1609–1680).

This aside, Basire's style of line-engraving was of a kind held at the time to be old-fashioned compared to the flashier stipple or mezzotint styles.

With polarity reversed the low voltage provides a simpler method of making mezzotint plates as well as the "steel facing" citation copper plates.