Aquatint

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1. an intaglio printmaking technique, a variant of etching

   

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2. Intaglio printmaking makes marks on the matrix (in the case of aquatint, a copper or zinc plate) that are capable of holding ink

   

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3. The inked plate is passed through a printing-press together with a sheet of paper, resulting in a transfer of the ink to the paper

   

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4. This can be repeated a number of times, depending on the particular technique

   

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5. Like etching, aquatint uses the application of acid to make the marks in the metal plate

   

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6. begins with a copper or zinc plate

   technique

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7. 

   Goya - El sueño de la razón, The sleep of reason produces monsters, from Los Caprichos 1799

   1799

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8. Goya famously took great advantage of aquatint printmaking, in his Los Caprichos (1799); Los Desastres de la Guerra (1810–19); La Tauromaquia (1816)

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9. and Disparates (ca. 1816–23) Master engraver Robert Havell used aquatint for John James Audubon's Birds of America (1826-38)

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