Rena M. Hoisington

How an ingenious printmaking technique became a cross-cultural phenomenon in Enlightenment Europe Driven by a growing interest in collecting and multiplying drawings, artists and amateurs in the eighteenth century sought a new technique capable of replicating the subtlety of ink, wash, and watercolour. They devised an innovative and versatile new medium—aquatint—which would spread in use across Europe within a few...