Art by Medium: Mezzotint

Yokoi, Tomoe (Japanese, born 1942). APPLES IN A BASKET. Color mezzotint. a Hors de Commerce copy aside from an edition of unknown size. Signed in penci...

This charming mezzotint depicts the façade of Notre Dame in Paris. Signed in graphite below the plate lines. On paper.

WEINMANN, Johann Wilhelm. Coconut/Palm Nut Hieronymous Lenzius, Regensburg, [1735]-1737-1745. attractive plates, being one of the earliest examples of colour printing. Johann Wei...

Sevillian Bowl by Judith Rothchild - 2001 Judith Rothchild is an American born artist, having grown up in Boston, Massachusetts. She now lives in the Languedoc region of France, wh...

Artist: K.B. (Kyu-Baik) Hwang Title: Maturity Year: circa 1970 Medium: Mezzotint, signed, numbered, and titled in pencil Edition: AP Paper Size: 30 x 22 inches

Fred Mershimer created this piece using mezzotint and aquatint printmaking techniques with handpainted watercolor. "Across the Floor" was printed in an edition of 120 in 2011. It ...

Le banc de jardin (The Garden Bench) Mezzotint and engraving on cream chine collé laid down on ivory wove paper, 1883 Signed in the plate (see photo) Condition: Brilliant impression...

'Jacques and the Wounded Stag, Scene from 'As you like it'' Mezzotint on steel by David Lucas (1802-1881) after John Constable (1776–1836). From 'English Landscape Scenery', 1855. ...

'A Dell, Helmingham Park, 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...

'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...

'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...

This hand-colored botanical mezzotint and line engraving by Johann Wilhelm Weinmann (1683-1741) is entitled "A. Esula seu Tithyinalus Africanus SpinosusCera Effigie, B. Esula seu Ti...

Water Mill (after the drawing by J.M.W. Turner, R.A., 1775-1851). 1885. Mezzotint. Hardie 3.ii. With the publication line. 7 x 10 1/8 (sheet 12 1/4 x 16 5/8...

Knaresborough (after a watercolor by Peter De Wint, 1784-1849). c. 1904. Mezzotint. Hardie catalog 80 state ii. 7 7/16 x 11 3/8 (sheet 13 3/8 x 18). A very rich impression, printed o...

This mezzotint was created by Korean artist K.B. Hwang. Hwang's soft lighting and colors, at once vivid and subdued, depict familiar objects in surreal settings. After moving to New ...

Le Matin (Morning) Mezzotint, 1886 Signed and dated in the plate (see photos) Edition: at least 650 impressions in both states Reference: Wentworth 82 ii/II Provenance: Heirs of Edmu...

Artist: Corson Hirschfeld, American (1941 - ) Title: American Bannerstones, 5000-1000 B.C. Year: circa 1979 Medium: Mezzotint, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 170 Image Size:...

Window-No. 25 Color mezzotint, September 2009 Signed, titled and numbered in pencil (see photos) Edition: 70 (16/70) Provenance: Ninion and Sheldon Landy Collection, Donors of Art In...

Artist: K.B. (Kyu-Baik) Hwang, Korean (1932 - ) Title: Crowd of Shadows Year: circa 1970 Medium: Mezzotint, signed and numbered in marker Edition: 50 Size: 30 x 22 in. (76.2 x 5...

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...

Laurent Schkolnyk created this original mezzotint, L' Anais that is signed, titled and numbered #22 in an edition of 30. Since the fruit was so perishable, it became a symbol of lu...

Maize by Scholnyk is a mezzotint of ears of corn in a woven basket. This impression is #25 of an edition of 80. Schkolnyk was born in Paris, France in 1953 and currently resides in...

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...

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...

Sharon Augusta Mitchell created "Ram Skull" in an edition of 100. This is impression #10 from the edition. It is signed, titled and numbered in pencil by ...

Architextures is a suite of 8 mezzotints in an edition of 50 created in 1984: Mosque and Mosque Interior (5.1 cm x 5.1 cm) Dome and Dome Interior (5.7cm x 3.8 cm) Castle and Castle ...

Lois Ward created a Fragile Series of images including "Crushed Beetle" in 1990 in a very small edition of just 9. This impression is #1 of 9. Ward has always been concerned with t...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

La Paire Amarette by Judith Rothchild - 2001 Judith Rothchild is an American born artist, having grown up in Boston, Massachusetts. She now lives in the Lang...

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...

Luis Lara (Mexico, 1972) 'Teoria del salto III', 2000 mezzotint on paper Velin Arches 300 g. 10.5 x 8.3 in. (26.5 x 21 cm.) Edition of 13 ID: LAL-308 Unframed

Luis Lara (Mexico, 1972) 'Cuidadito compay gallo', 2000 mezzotint on paper Velin Arches 300 g. 25.2 x 20.1 in. (64 x 51 cm.) Edition of 15 ID: LAL-306 Unframed

Luis Lara (Mexico, 1972) 'Adicción', 2000 mezzotint on paper Velin Arches 300 g. 29.6 x 22.1 in. (75 x 56 cm.) Edition of 13 ID: LAL-304 Unframed

Luis Lara (Mexico, 1972) 'Oidos sordos', 2000 mezzotint on paper Velin Arches 300 g. 27.6 x 19.7 in. (70 x 50 cm.) Edition of 13 ID: LAL-301 Unframed

Luis Lara (Mexico, 1972) 'Untitled', 2000 mezzotint on paper Velin Arches 300 g. 27.6 x 21.3 in. (70 x 54 cm.) Edition of 20 ID: LAL-307 Unframed

Contemporary figurative black and white drypoint and copperplate print by Polish artist Ewa Kutylak. This surrealistic print depicts a man watering a river, there are fish in the wat...

Contemporary figurative black & white mezzotint and drypoint print by Polish artist Ewa Kutylak. Print depicts a man facing a horse. Above them there is a dog in a landscape and bene...

Contemporary figurative monochromatic mezzotint print by Polish artist Ewa Kutylak. Print depicts a man sitting near a tree with a bird standing on his hand. There is a dog on the ot...

Avati, Mario. SIPHON ET CORNET A PISTONS. Mezzotint in colors. 8 3/4 x 11 inches; 223 x 279 mm. One of an edition of 15 before the plate was steelfaced. Numbered, titled and signed i...

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...

Richard DAVIES (1945-1991) The Belvedere Original etching and mezzotint Handsigned in pencil Numbered / 60 On vellum 51 x 66 cm (c. 20 x 26 inch) REFERENCES : Catalog Raisonne Plum...

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 : ...

Richard DAVIES (1945-1991) Asleep (Sommeil) Original etching and mezzotint Handsigned in pencil Numbered / 90 On vellum 28 x 20 cm (c. 11 x 8 inch) Excellent condition

An evocative mezzotint by the artist Georges Higuet (1892-1958) depicting a melancholy young lady. Signed to the lower right. Smartly presented in a thin black frame. On paper.

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,...

Byron Bratt, American (1952 - 2020) - Solar Wind: I Only Count The Sunny Hours, Year: circa 1970, Medium: Mezzotint, signed, titled and numbered in pencil, Edition: 30/100, Image ...

Avati, Mario. NATURE MORT AUX ALLUMETTES. Mezzotint, 1959. 8 1/2 x 10 3/4 inches, 216 x 274 mm. Edition of 75, numbered 46/75, titled and signed in pencil. In excellent condition.

Avati, Mario. CORBEAU A LA BOUTEILLE (STILL LIFE WITH CROW AND WINE BOTTLE). Mezzotint, 1958. Edition of 30. Numbered XIII/XXX, titled, signed and dated in pencil. 17 1/2 x 23 3/4 in...

The illusions and reflections in Sietens prints often bring M.C. Escher to mind, but his prints have a distinctive feel all their own. His surreal constructions of Kastani (chestnut...

The illusions and reflections in Sietins prints often bring M.C. Escher to mind, but his prints have a distinctive feel all their own. The numbers reflect up into the ball, along wit...

Limited edition. KRYSTYNA JASZKE She graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław where she studied at the faculty of Painting and Sculpture at the atelier of professor Józef H...

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...

Limited edition, one of 10 copies. KRYSTYNA JASZKE She graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław where she studied at the faculty of Painting and Sculpture at the atelier of...

Limited edition, one of 10 copies. KRYSTYNA JASZKE She graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław where she studied at the faculty of Painting and Sculpture at the atelier of...

Signed and numbered. The illusions and reflections in Sietens prints often bring M.C. Escher to mind, but his prints have a distinctive feel all their own. Reflection of real world ...

Surreal composition of Kastani (chestnuts) with a floating tree limb suspended above. Chestnuts are a comman subject for Sietins, and the level of detail he creates in his mezzotints...