Art by Medium: Mezzotint

Cherry and Violine by Tomoe Yokoi, Japanese (1942) Date: Circa 1985 Mezzotint on BFK Rives, Signed in Pencil Size: 20 x 26 in. (50.8 x 66.04 cm)

An overflow of traffic in front of St. Bartholomew's Episcopal Cathedral on Park Avenue between 50th and 51st

Medium: etching, engraving and mezzotint (after Claude Lorrain). This lovely impression on wove paper was engraved by G.H. Every for the "Beauties of Claude Lorraine" portfolio. The ...

Peaches in the Sack by Tomoe Yokoi, Japanese (1942) Date: circa 1973 Mezzotint, signed and numbered in pencil Edition of 75 Image Size: 13 x 10.75 inches Size: 25.5 x 19.5 in. (64.77...

Bugle by Tomoe Yokoi, Japanese (1942) Date: circa 1973 Mezzotint, signed and numbered in pencil Edition of 100 Image Size: 12 x 13.5 inches Size: 19.5 x 26 in. (49.53 x 66.04 cm)

Happy by Tomoe Yokoi Japanese (1942) Date: 1975 Mezzotint on BFK Rives, signed in Pencil Image Size: 4.5 x 3.5 inches Size: 6.5 in. x 5.5 in. (16.51 cm x 13.97 cm)

Pan and Jar by Tomoe Yokoi, Japanese (1942) Date: circa 1973 Mezzotint, signed and numbered in pencil Edition of 100 Image Size: 12 x 13.5 inches Frame Size: 21 x 27 inches

Broom by Tomoe Yokoi, Japanese (1942) Date: 1973 Mezzotint on BFK Rives, Signed in Pencil Edition of XIV/XXX Image Size: 14 x 12 inches Size: 26 in. x 20 in. (66.04 cm x 50.8 cm)

Strawberries and Asparagus by Tomoe Yokoi, Japanese (1942) Date: circa 1973 Mezzotint, Signed, Titled and Numbered in Pencil Edition of VI/XXX Image Size: 12 x 13.5 inches Size: 19.5...

On the Table by Tomoe Yokoi, Japanese (1942) Date: 1975 Mezzotint on BFK Rives, Signed in Pencil Edition of 19/75 Image Size: 11 x 13 inches Size: 18 in. x 22 in. (45.72 cm x 55.88 c...

Grapes and Peaches by Tomoe Yokoi, Japanese (1942) Date: circa 1985 Mezzotint on BFK Rives, Signed in Pencil Image Size: 7 x 10.5 inches Size: 13 in. x 17 in. (33.02 cm x 43.18 cm) F...

Watering Jug and Brush by Tomoe Yokoi, Japanese (1942) Date: circa 1973 Mezzotint, Signed and Numbered in Pencil Edition of 150 Size: 19.5 in. x 25.5 in. (49.53 cm x 64.77 cm)

Funnel and Fruit Cups by Tomoe Yokoi, Japanese (1942) Date: circa 1973 Mezzotint, Signed and Numbered in Pencil Edition of 150 Size: 19.5 in. x 25.5 in. (49.53 cm x 64.77 cm)

Fork and Lemon by Tomoe Yokoi, Japanese (1942) Date: circa 1985 Mezzotint, signed and numbered in pencil Edition of 2/75 Image Size: 13 x 10.5 inches Size: 16 x 14 in. (40.64 x 35.56...

Sliced Watermelon by Tomoe Yokoi, Japanese (1942) Date: Circa 1985 Mezzotint on BFK Rives, Signed in Pencil Size: 13 x 17 in. (33.02 x 43.18 cm)

Corn and Pepper by Tomoe Yokoi, Japanese (1942) Etching with Aquatint, signed and numbered in pencil Edition of 39/75 Image Size: 5.75 x 6.75 inches Size: 13.5 x 11 in. (34.29 x 27.9...

Richard Hricko has exhibited internationally in museums, galleries and juried competitions, including the National Academy Museum in New York, Glynn Vivian Art Museum in Wales, and G...

Leonard Merchant's mezzotint, "Snail in Cup" is inscribed for fellow artist, Fritz Eichenberg. While a student at the Central School for Arts and Crafts in London, a young Leonard Marchant found an engraving rocker in a cupboard and proceeded to turn himself into a master of the painstaking art of mezzotinting. Marchant, who has died in Shrewsbury aged 70, grew up in Simonstown, the Royal Navy's enclave in South Africa. Though his first job was as a parliamentary messenger, he taught himself to paint and, aged 19, was given a one-man show in Cape Town. Fired by this success, he left for England to study painting and, he claimed, to escape the stifling home atmosphere created by his Catholic mother and aunts. (His father was killed in the second world war.) Without contacts in London, he phoned Jacob Epstein, whose recommendation resulted in a grant to study briefly at the Central School. It was later, when studying full-time at the Central, that he saw the mezzotints of the Japanese master, Yozo Hamaguchi, in a London gallery. He was hooked. Creating a mezzotint is tedious in the extreme. The copper plate must first be prepared with a "rocker" which roughens the surface. A plate may be "rocked" 30 or 40 times. The rough texture is then reduced with a burnisher and a scraper, allowing the print a range of tones from velvety black through the greys to white. Marchant's plates could be months in the making. But the technical demands were the least of his worries. In its 18th- and 19th-century heyday, mezzotint was solely a reproductive medium, for copying masters such as Reynolds and Turner. The development of photography rendered it unfashionable, and by the 1960s the technique, known as la manière anglaise, was a bygone medium. Marchant, by now a teacher in printmaking at the Central, began to create original mezzotints with a colleague, Radavan Kraguly. A perfectionist, he seemed to revel in the straitjacket procedure. Perhaps it was the metaphor of bringing darkness out of light that appealed to this straight-talking, sometimes sombre, man, who would suddenly relax and light up like a gleaming hue on one of his prints. His work was of squares and triangles with the occasional cat, black and ominous, and carefully arranged still lifes, featuring plants, a seed pod, a pot he might have bought at auction to celebrate the sale of a print. There were one-man shows, notably at the Bankside Gallery. He sold well at the Royal Academy summer exhibition, was a Florence Biennale prizewinner, spent a fellowship year at the British School in Rome, and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers. But making mezzotints was not a paying job. Marchant and his South African wife...

Christine Ravaux created this mezzotint which translates to the phase "against sense". This impression is #7 of 20 Shades of blacks and grays on a fallen branch create a pleasing p...

This is an 18th century mezzotint portrait of Elizabeth, Countess of Northumberland, Baroness Percy by Richard Houston after a painting by Joshua Reynolds, published in London by Robert Sayer in 1763. It is a rare, full length portrait of Elizabeth, who was known as Lady Betty. Lady Betty stands, facing to the right, holding her coronet, and wearing her peeress’s ermine and velvet robes over a brocade dress. In the background are a column, a billowing drape, and the grounds of Alnwick Castle...

“Columbines Pl. 162” A Weinmann, Johann, Wilhelm Mezzotint Engraving With Some Hand Coloring from Johan Wilhelm Weinmann’s ( 1683-1741 ) Phytanthoza Iconographia, a comprehensive sci...

LAURENT SCHKOLNYK “Purple Light” is a multi-plate color mezzotint created in 2006. Printed in an edition of 90, this impression is signed, titled and inscribed “6/90.” The paper s...

Carol Wax's mezzotint, "Singer 10101", is an image of Singer I as seen through a drafting template. It was issued as an edition of 40 and was printed at the Indiana University print...

Medium: mezzotint (engraved by David Lucas after the John Constable painting). Printed in 1855 on cream wove paper for the "English Landscape Scenery" portfolio, published in London ...

Medium: mezzotint. Catalogue reference: Hardie 95. Executed in 1913 by Sir Frank Short after J. M. W. Turner and signed in pencil by Sir Frank Short. Printed on chine-collé paper in ...

This hand-colored botanical mezzotint and line engraving by Johann Wilhelm Weinmann (1683-1741) is entitled "A. Mespilus Aronia Azarolie B. Mespilus Vulgaris Neflier". It is plate 7...

Scene of cliffs shaped by the waaves of the california coastline. Suggestions of human forms can be seen in some rock formations. Werger's mezzotint prints are masterful at capturin...

Medium: etching, engraving and mezzotint (after Claude Lorrain). This lovely impression on wove paper was engraved by G.H. Every for the "Beauties of Claude Lorraine" portfolio. The ...

Maurice Pasternak created "Attraction 5", a mezzotint in an edition of 80 that depicts 6 men clearly attracted to something that appears outside the plane of the image. The men seem...

Medium: etching, engraving and mezzotint (after Claude Lorrain). This lovely impression on wove paper was engraved by G.H. Every for the "Beauties of Claude Lorraine" portfolio. The ...

Medium: etching, engraving and mezzotint (after Claude Lorrain). This lovely impression on wove paper was engraved by G.H. Every for the "Beauties of Claude Lorraine" portfolio. The ...

A large mezzotint by Josiah Boydell (1752-1817) after a 1641 painting by Rembrandt (1606-1669) depicting Cornelis Claesz Anslo (1592-1646), a Dutch businessman and Mennonite preacher...

Medium: etching, engraving and mezzotint (after Claude Lorrain). This lovely impression on wove paper was engraved by G.H. Every for the "Beauties of Claude Lorraine" portfolio. The ...

Artist: Robert Kipniss, American (1931 - ) Title: Tual Year: circa 1980 Medium: Mezzotint, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: Trial Proof Image Size: 14.75 x 11.75 inches Frame:...

This hand-colored botanical mezzotint and line engraving by Johann Wilhelm Weinmann (1683-1741) is entitled "Cereus Erectus Altissimo Surinamensis (Cereus Cactus Plant)". It is plate...

Born in Charleroi, Belgium, Christine Ravaux is an artist who mirrors her surroundings in the mezzotints she creates. She has portrayed the black hills that dot the landscape of the ...

Maurice Pasternak usually creates surreal landscapes that include traditional male images along a canal. However, this traditional imagery is not organized or presented in a way that...

Souto named this image Bambalina (backstage). It is an exclusive publication of Stone and Press Gallery. Francisco Souto was born in Venezuela. He received a BFA from Herron Schoo...

This is an artist's proof (xv/xv) of an early telephone that is signed and numbered by the artist in pencil Schkolnyk was born in Paris, France in 195...

Signed, titled and numbered from the edition of 55. This is one of Chmutin's largest prints, a portrait of a large millenium Garlic in dramatic pose. Most of his mezzotints are tiny,...

John Colborne, 1st Baron Seaton Mezzotint by James Scott (1809-1889) after GW Fisher (1817-1895) . 1864. Proof, before letters. Blindstamp of Printsellers' Association lower left ...

This is a three-plate color mezzotint. The mat dimensions are 20 x 16 inches. Signed "Schkolnyk" at lower right.

In "Late Night", Frederick Mershimer created a winter scene where Berkeley Place meets Seventh Avenue in Brooklyn's Park Slope. This image, the seventh in t...

Christine Ravaux created Une Fois Rien which is signed by pencil. This impression is #12 of 30 Shades of blacks and grays on a fallen branch create a pleasing pattern contrasted wi...

Stone and Press Gallery is excited to offer several works in celebration of the LGBTQ community. A copper mezzotint printed on Hahnemulle paper in an edition of 20, Graduated fro...

Shades of blacks and grays on a fallen branch create a pleasing pattern contrasted with grasses and ferns that lie beneath. Christine Ravaux is a Belgian artist who uses nature in m...

Maurice Pasternak has created a surreal landscape that includes several spirit-like creatures seeming to wander in an unknown landscape He moves images around on the paper to create ...

Washington and His Family published in Philadelphia in 1884 by Bradlee & Co. This impressive mezzotint was engraved by William Sartain after a painting by the well-known Philadelphia artist Christian...

Mezzotint print. Edition of 18, signed, titled and numbered by the artist. Caulfield has exhibited his prints, drawings, installations and artist’s books extensively throughout Cana...

Pasternak is an acknowledged master of the mezzotint technique, and many of his prints feature his characters in ambiguous or surreal distorted complositions. One of his prints was f...

This black and white mezzotint is in an edition of 30. It is titled, numbered #1/30 and signed in pencil. Holly Downing is a painter and printmaker who has been making mezzotint e...

Werger's mezzotint prints are masterful at capturing a mood, and suggesting a story for the viewer to complete. His seascapes and ocean prints are from the California coastline. Sign...

A large mezzotint print by Norman Hirst (1862-1956) depicting Lady Catherine Rouse Boughton after a painting by George Romney (1734-1802). The original po...

Medium: etching, engraving and mezzotint (after Claude Lorrain). This lovely impression on wove paper was engraved by G.H. Every for the "Beauties of Claude Lorraine" portfolio. The ...

KATSUNORI HAMANISHI (b.1949) SITUATION X (S. 32) Mezzotint Signed, titled and numbered 6/90 in pencil. 13 1/4 x 11 5/8 inches, sheet 18 1/4 x 14 1/2 inches. Excellent condition. She...

Medium: mezzotint (engraved by David Lucas after the John Constable painting). Printed in 1855 on cream wove paper for the "English Landscape S...

12 copper mezzotints printed on Hahnemulle paper in an edition of 12. This is impression #5 The 12 complementary mezzotints are included in boxed portfolio Graduated from the Natio...

This luminous nocturnal mezzotint by Art Werger depicts a quiet American neighborhood arranged in a circular pattern, glowing under the soft spill of streetlights. Seen from an eleva...

A charming mezzontint after the portrait by Henry MacBeth Raeburn depicting General Hay MacDowall. Hay MacDowall was a Scottish officer in the British Army who was the sixth General ...

The illusions and reflections in Sietens prints often bring M.C. Escher to mind, but his prints have a distinctive feel all their own. Elements in his prints seem to defy gravity. Si...