mezzotint - use in sentences

Modifies a noun

  • engraving: During his exile in Europe, he had become skilled in mezzotint engraving, which he is said to have introduced into England.
  • portrait: John Broadwood died in 1812 at the age of eighty-one years; there exists a mezzotint portrait of him by Harrison and Say.
  • engraver: William Ward and his brother James were pupils of the celebrated mezzotint engraver, John Raphael Smith.

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