Aquatint is a kind of archaic printing technique, which produces an effect resembling a watercolor from a plate etched with nitric acid. Its use began in the late 1700s and continued throughout the ...

Artist Beth Weintraub explains what aquatint is Artist Beth Weintraub is taking etching to a whole new level and shows us what an aquatint is.

Aquatint Worlds: Travel, Print, and Empire, by Douglas Fordham Chloe Chard is intrigued by an account of the short-lived fashion for lavishly illustrated hand-coloured travel books Published on ...

Aquatint flourished outside the official circles of European art academies in the hands of three kinds of artists—professional printmakers, amateurs (art lovers), and peintre-graveurs ...

APPRAISER: This is an aquatint, as you rightly said. This is the work he's known for. He's known as a printmaker, most of the awards he received over the decades were for his printmaking. APPRAISER: ...

etching and aquatint on paper by Japanese artist Shoichi Hasegawa, titled Castle in Fog (Chateau dans le Brouillard), was created in 1971. The composition features a dreamlike castle emerging from an ...

"In the late 18th century, British artists embraced the medium of aquatint for its ability to produce prints with rich and varied tones that became even more stunning with the addition of color. At ...