Aquatint (printing process)
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An intaglio etching technique in which a metal plate is sprinkled with a finely-powdered resin (asphaltum, rosin, etc.); the plate is heated to melt the resin, then cooled, and placed in an acid bath. The acid lightly etches areas not covered with the resin. The results in a plate with fine pockmarks. The process was invented in the 1760s by J.B. LePrince. Aquatints were popular until the late 1830s.
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- aquatint [nl]
- aquatinte (printing process) [fr]
- Aquatinta (printing process) [de]
- acquatinta (printing process) [it]
- aguatinta (printing process) [es]
- akvatint (printing process) [sv]
- aquatinting [en]
- manière de lavis [fr]