Crossword-Solution: AQUATINT
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Aquatint | n. | Alt. of Aquatinta |
We have 10 clues for the answer “AQUATINT”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Etching of a sort | 1 answer |
| Etching on copperplate | 1 answer |
| Etching process | 1 answer |
| Type of engraving. | 1 answer |
| a method of etching that imitates the broad washes of a water color | 1 answer |
| an etching made by a process that makes it resemble a water color | 1 answer |
| print like a watercolour, produced by etching copper | 1 answer |
| etching | 3 answers |
| Engraving | 12 answers |
| Engrave | 27 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EERTA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with AQUATINT (5)
The resin grain gives a surface to the corroded parts suitable for holding the ink, and the plate is now finished and fit to give impressions resembling aquatint.
Yes, it grieves me--though I should be bored if I had to be stately, I think.--Isn't it beautiful in this light, like an eighteenth-century aquatint? I'm sure no age was as ugly as this, since the world began.
Engravings best suited to this style of painting are mezzotint or aquatint, though fine lithographs are used.
Accordingly he announced the publication of _Life in London_ in shilling numbers, monthly, and secured the aid of George Cruikshank, and his brother, Isaac Robert Cruikshank, to draw and engrave the illustrations in aquatint, to be coloured by hand.
Often called the _Cabinet Crozat_, it was reprinted by Basan in 1763 with aquatint tones by François Charpentier replacing the woodblock tints.] The drawings were reproduced in chiaroscuro while the paintings were rendered in black-and-white by a corps of engravers.
Quotes with AQUATINT (1)
Been thinking of my grandfather, whose wayward brilliance skipped my father’s generation. Once, he showed me an aquatint of a certain Siamese temple. Don’t recall its name, but ever since a disciple of the Buddha preached on the spot centuries ago, every bandit king, tyrant, and monarch of that kingdom has enhanced it with marble towers, scented arboretums, gold-leafed domes, lavished murals on its vaulted ceilings, set emeralds into the eyes of its statuettes. When the templ…
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (1959–2000).