Art by Medium: Mezzotint

This hand-colored botanical mezzotint and line engraving by Johann Wilhelm Weinmann (1683-1741) is entitled "a. Pisum Minus sine Putamine, b. Pisa Indicum". It is plate 819 in Weinma...

Edition of 80. Signed, titled and numbered in pencil. Pasternak's work was featured o on the title page of Carol Wax's masterful book "The History of the Mezzotint". Pasternak has b...

German artist Udo Claassen created a dramatic landscape of this Icelandic scene in 1985 in an edition of 40. This is #33. Claassen was born in Itzehoe in the state of Schleswig-Hol...

Combination Knit, mezzotint by Katsunori Hamanishi, rope, Japan, black and white edition number 8/30

'Castle Acre Priory' Mezzotint on steel by David Lucas (1802-1881) after John Constable (1776–1836). From 'English Landscape Scenery', 1855. John Constable RA was an English Romantic landscape...

'River Stour, Suffolk' Mezzotint on steel by David Lucas (1802-1881) after John Constable (1776–1836). From 'English Landscape Scenery', 1855. John Constable RA was an English Romantic landscape...

'Gillingham Mill, Dorsetshire' Mezzotint on steel by David Lucas (1802-1881) after John Constable (1776–1836). From 'English Landscape Scenery', 1855. John Constable RA was an English Romantic...

'East Bergholt' Mezzotint on steel by David Lucas (1802-1881) after John Constable (1776–1836). East Bergholt House was the birthplace of Constable. From 'English Landscape Scene...

'Arundel Mill and Castle' Mezzotint on steel by David Lucas (1802-1881) after John Constable (1776–1836). From 'English Landscape Scenery', 1855. John Constable RA was an English Romantic landscape...

Marc Balakjian was enigmatic in his subject matter creating images that are disturbing in their ambiguity. Is this image just striped fabric tied with ropes on a platform or is this is a flag-draped coffin symbolizing those who passed "in memory of an historic phrase"? Politicians may turn the phrase but a price must be paid. This small edition mezzotint was created in 1975 in an edition of only 5. Armenian by descent, Marc Balakjian was raised in Lebanon. He spent his early years in the small town of Rayak, before moving to Beirut at the age of 10. He came to England in 1966, initially to study architecture with a firm in Oxford. He then decided to study art at Hammersmith College of Art and took up a postgraduate degree in printmaking at the Slade School of Art in 1971. After graduating he began working at Studio Prints in 1973, just as it was establishing itself in Queen’s Crescent. By 1976 he had become a full time partner, collaborating with other artists as well as continuing his own work, much of which is inspired by his Armenian and Lebanese culture and heritage. By the 1980s work was falling off, so Balakjian and Studio Prints introduced in-house plate-making to serve painters and sculptors who had little experience with printmaking. Artists such as Leon Kossoff, Frank Auerbach, Lucian Freud and Ken Kiff...

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...

Mario AVATI Still Life with Eggs Original black manner etching Handsigned in pencil Numbered / 150 copies On vellum 38 x 48 cm (c. 15 x 19 in) Au...

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...

This Finnish artist creates a mezzotint in black and white. This impression is #44 of 100 and is signed, dated and titled in pencil. Jukka Vanttinen (Finn, b. 1954) Jukka Vanttinen...

Cottage and Harvesters (after a watercolor by Peter De Wint, 1784-1849). 1907. Mezzotint. Hardie 88. 6 5/8 x 10 11/16 (sheet 14 x 19 1/4). Edition 100. Housed in a 16 x 20 mat. A ver...

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...

This is a three-plate color mezzotint, edition 74/90. The mat dimensions are 20 x 16 inches. Signed "Schkolnyk" at lower right.

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...

"The Country Stable" After a painting by George Morland. 1763-1804. - Mezzotint engraving by William Ward. 1766-1826. Print: 20.75" x 26" - With Frame: 28.5" x 34" Published: March...

This impression is #22 Carol Wax originally trained to be a classical musician at the Manhattan School of Music but fell in love with printmaking. Soon after she began engraving mezzotints she was asked by the renowned print dealer Sylvan Cole to exhibit at Associated American Artists Gallery, launching her career as a professional artist/printmaker. With the publication of her book, The Mezzotint: History and Technique, published by Abrams, 1990 and 1996, Carol added author and teacher to her credits. In the ensuing years she has expanded her repertoire of mediums beyond printmaking into other works on paper and painting. In compositions reflecting an appreciation for antiquated machinery and vintage textiles, Wax creates imagery that, in her own words, “… speaks to an inner life perceived in inanimate objects.” She uses stylization and imagination to reinvent subjects, transforming an ordinary typewriter into a monumental icon...

Storm Cloud Over Sand Cove is part of James Groleau’s Salt Granite Spruce series, a body of mezzotints drawn from the rugged coastline and inland waterways of Maine. Through dense bl...

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...

Signed, titled and numbered from the edition of 50. Most of his mezzotints are tiny, and his subjects are the simplest of everyday objects: an egg, seashell, carrot, potatoes. Simil...

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

Carol Wax's "Singer Needle" is a mezzotint issued in an edition of 100. It was originally designed to illustrate the step by step mezzotint process in the Abrams publication: "The Mezzotint: History and Technique" authored by Carol Wax. It is FIROS #44 in the catalogue raisonne. Carol Wax originally trained to be a classical musician at the Manhattan School of Music but fell in love with printmaking. Soon after she began engraving mezzotints she was asked by the renowned print dealer Sylvan Cole to exhibit at Associated American Artists Gallery, launching her career as a professional artist/printmaker. With the publication of her book, The Mezzotint: History and Technique, published by Abrams, 1990 and 1996, Carol added author and teacher to her credits. In the ensuing years she has expanded her repertoire of mediums beyond printmaking into other works on paper and painting. In compositions reflecting an appreciation for antiquated machinery and vintage textiles, Wax creates imagery that, in her own words, “… speaks to an inner life perceived in inanimate objects.” She uses stylization and imagination to reinvent subjects, transforming an ordinary typewriter into a monumental icon...

This Finnish artist creates a mezzotint in black and white. This impression is #34 of 100 and is signed, dated and titled in pencil. Jukka Vanttinen (Finn, b. 1954) Jukka Vanttinen...

This is a striking original antique colored botanical mezzotint and line double page engraving of banana plants, which is finished with hand-coloring. It is entitled "Banana 1. Musa,...

A "Pylon" of the Brooklyn Bridge with the Manhattan Bridge and Williamsburg Bridge visible in the background is captured in this powerful image by Frederick Mershimer. It is #77 in t...

This colored botanical mezzotint and line engraving finished with hand coloring by Johann Wilhelm Weinmann (1683-1741) is entitled a. Thyrsus asparagi. b. Asparagus, Asperge. c. Aspa...

Carol Wax's mezzotint, "Singer I", shows a distorted view of an old Singer sewing machine. The artist created a convincing illusion of real mass, space and depth. Issued in an edit...

Carol Wax describes her circular images as "most often quasi abstract works that refer to ancient islamic designs using the shapes and attributes of animals, in this case the elephan...

Carol Wax describes her circular images as "most often quasi abstract works that refer to ancient islamic designs using the shapes and attributes of animals, in this case the elephan...

Remington Strip Tease had a black iron dome covering the moving parts and suppressing noise. It is presented in a light that suggests a monument. It is f...

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 ...

A play on words provides the title for this image -- a circle created out of the deconstructed parts of Singer IV This image is #37 from an edition of only 50, referenced as Firos 78...

This black and white mezzotint of a shell next to a violin is an artist proof that was inscribed Happy New Year 2000 and signed by the artist. The regular e...

The illusions and reflections in Sietens prints often bring M.C. Escher to mind, but his prints have a distinctive feel all their own. The letters on the background reflect up into t...

This image is #12 from an edition of only 75, Carol Wax originally trained to be a classical musician at the Manhattan School of Music but fell in love with printmaking. Soon after...

Mikio WATANABE (1954-) Lizards , 2003 Original etching (Mezzotint) Signed and dated in pencil Numbered / 90 ex On vellum 57 x 35 cm (c. 22.4 x 13.7 inch) Excellent condition

Stone and Press Gallery is excited to offer several works in celebration of the LGBTQ community. Christine Ravaux created Peau d' Are which is signed by pencil. This impression is ...

Hino creates a still life of a lotus from an edition of 65. A prominent figure in Buddhist and Egyptian culture, and native flower for both India and Vietnam, the lotus holds enormous symbolic weight. It spans various thousand-year-old Eastern cultures and yet, is still considered one of the most sacred flowers today. So what is it about this mysterious blossom that people find so enrapturing? Its colorful bloom is an obvious suspect, but the lotus also has a life cycle unlike any other. With its roots based in mud, it submerges every night into murky river water, and—undeterred by its dirty environment—it miraculously re-blooms the next morning without residue on its petals. Although cultures have their own interpretations of this daily process, there is a general consensus among ancient texts...

Carol Wax's mezzotint, "Made in China", explores the irony that glass, a transparent material alters perceptions of reality. This is the first instance in which Wax explores that iro...

Carol Wax's mezzotint, "Apple Peeler II", shows the simple tool influenced in part by Yves Tanguy. It was created in 1992 an edition of 50. This image is...

In Anne Dykmans' "Fructidore", a well endowed woman uses her plaid apron to carry a bunch of fruit. Parts of her body clothed in plaid seem to suggest the same fruit she is carrying...

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...

This image is from an edition of 50. The artist's subject matter was enigmatic: a recurring theme was that of anonymous packages tied with knots of rope; sometimes there are prison bars...

This image is an artist proof and is annotated VIII / VIII The artist's subject matter was enigmatic: a recurring theme was that of anonymous packages tied with knots of rope; sometimes there are prison bars...

Carol Wax describes her circular images as "most often quasi abstract works that refer to ancient islamic designs using the shapes and attributes of animals, in this case the zebra. ...

A spectacular wave breaking under a stormy sky . Werger's mezzotint prints are masterful at capturing a mood, and suggesting a story for the viewer to complete. Signed and numbered f...

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

David Shapiro (American, b. 1922) Waterfall I (de-accessioned from the Denver Art Museum), 1979 Spit-bite etching, drypoint and carborundrum on Lanaq...

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...

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...

Richard DAVIES (1945-1991) The Belvedere Original etching and mezzotint Handsigned in pencil Numbered / 50 On vellum 51 x 66 cm (c. 20 x 26 inch) REFERENCES : Catalog Raisonne Plum...

A humorous hand-coloured mezzotint after John Collet (1725-1780) titled "The Proverb Reversed, or A Bird in the Bush is Worth Two in the Hand." The print wittily inverts the familiar...

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 ...

The etching "The Game of Transformation. Butterflies" is an artist's play with meanings and associations. In this work, modern girls are presented in the form of glamorous fluttering...

Edition of 25, signed, numbered AGNIESZKA LECH-BIŃCZYCKA Graduated from University of Rzeszów in a field of Artistic Education with specialisation in g...

Richard DAVIES (1945-1991) Small Soldier Travelling in a Fish Original etching and mezzotint Handsigned in pencil Numbered / 60 On vellum 41 x 33 cm (c. 16 x 13 inch) REFERENCES : ...

This is one of eighteen color mezzotints (printed on chine collé) depicting the landscape of coastal Maine. Intimations of the Arts and Crafts Movement of the early twentieth century...