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noun-- A person who uses a particular method to engrave on copper or steel.

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  • First female mezzotinter of the Revolutionary Era.
  • The English mezzotinter John Martin must have studied him closely, also Gustave Doré.
  • Quincey in opium reveries, Poe and Baudelaire are among the writers who seem nearest to the English mezzotinter.
  • The engraver evokes colour by his cunning interplay of line and cross hatching; the mezzotinter by his disposition of dark masses and white spaces.
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