Mezzotints
Mezzotints is a 1904 London survey by Cyril Davenport, published by Methuen, covering mezzotint engraving and the men who made these tonal prints. The pictures are small black-and-white reproductions of 18th-century women in fashionable dress, some posed in gardens or leaning against draped backgrounds, which a designer could use for period costume, hairstyling and pastoral garden settings; one plate appears as a soft grey tonal print mounted on a page.
