Definitions for aquatints

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aquatints aq·ua·tint

Spelling: [ak-wuh-tint, ah-kwuh-]

IPA: /ˈæk wəˌtɪnt, ˈɑ kwə-/

Aquatints is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 17 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 234 anagrams from letters in aquatints (aainqsttu).

Definitions for aquatints

noun

1. a process imitating the broad flat tints of ink or wash drawings by etching a microscopic crackle on the copperplate intended for printing.
2. an etching made by this process.
3. a process imitating the broad flat tints of ink or wash drawings by etching a microscopic crackle on the copperplate intended for printing.
4. an etching made by this process.

verb (used with or without object)

1. to etch in aquatint.
2. to etch in aquatint.

Origin of aquatints

1775-85; variant of aqua-tinta Italian acqua tinta literally, tinted water. See aqua, tint

Examples for aquatints

The terms were, that Turner was to etch and Lewis to aquatint at five guineas a plate.

The plate has a wash of aquatint, all over it, and the etching is free and bold.

aquatint, a method of etching on copper by which a beautiful effect is produced, resembling a fine drawing in sepia or Indian ink.

In Holland's aquatint view , a rambling farmhouse is shown there, but not called an inn.

Etch all shades of the color pretty deeply in any of the stippled or aquatint styles.

He did aquatint work and drew upon stone for the lithographers.

Of these methods only aquatint survived after early years of the 19th century.

With the exception of the aquatint processes, good printing can be done with dry but unsized paper.

In aquatint it must be dampened more, about six dry sheets coming to one wet one.

In these etching merely provides the ground plan for the use of mezzotint, or, more rarely, aquatint.

In aquatint it must be dampened more, about six dry sheets coming to one wet one.

He did aquatint work and drew upon stone for the lithographers.

In these etching merely provides the ground plan for the use of mezzotint, or, more rarely, aquatint.

The terms were, that Turner was to etch and Lewis to aquatint at five guineas a plate.

Etch all shades of the color pretty deeply in any of the stippled or aquatint styles.

In Holland's aquatint view , a rambling farmhouse is shown there, but not called an inn.

With the exception of the aquatint processes, good printing can be done with dry but unsized paper.

aquatint, a method of etching on copper by which a beautiful effect is produced, resembling a fine drawing in sepia or Indian ink.

Of these methods only aquatint survived after early years of the 19th century.

The plate has a wash of aquatint, all over it, and the etching is free and bold.