Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- INTRODUCTION TO THIS VOLUME
- PART I “ACADEMY NOTES” (1855–1859, 1875)
- LIST OF ARTISTS AND WORKS MENTIONED IN “ACADEMY NOTES”
- PART II LETTERS AND PAPERS ON PICTURES AND ARTISTS (1858–1887)
- PART III NOTES ON SAMUEL PROUT AND WILLIAM HUNT (1879–1880)
- APPENDIX
- I LETTERS ON “ACADEMY NOTES”
- II LETTERS TO JAMES SMETHAM (1854–1871)
- III SPEECH ON THOMAS SEDDON (1857)
- IV LETTERS TO G. F. WATTS, R.A. (1860–1866)
- V THE REFLECTION OF RAINBOWS IN WATER (1861)
- VI EVIDENCE BEFORE THE ROYAL ACADEMY COMMISSION
- VII MODERN CARICATURE
- VIII THE ART OF MEZZOTINT (1884)
- IX THE NUDE IN ART (1885)
- X NOTES ON J. E. MILLAIS, R.A. (1886)
- XI PASSAGES FROM EXHIBITION CATALOGUES, ETC.
- Plate section
VIII - THE ART OF MEZZOTINT (1884)
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 February 2015
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- INTRODUCTION TO THIS VOLUME
- PART I “ACADEMY NOTES” (1855–1859, 1875)
- LIST OF ARTISTS AND WORKS MENTIONED IN “ACADEMY NOTES”
- PART II LETTERS AND PAPERS ON PICTURES AND ARTISTS (1858–1887)
- PART III NOTES ON SAMUEL PROUT AND WILLIAM HUNT (1879–1880)
- APPENDIX
- I LETTERS ON “ACADEMY NOTES”
- II LETTERS TO JAMES SMETHAM (1854–1871)
- III SPEECH ON THOMAS SEDDON (1857)
- IV LETTERS TO G. F. WATTS, R.A. (1860–1866)
- V THE REFLECTION OF RAINBOWS IN WATER (1861)
- VI EVIDENCE BEFORE THE ROYAL ACADEMY COMMISSION
- VII MODERN CARICATURE
- VIII THE ART OF MEZZOTINT (1884)
- IX THE NUDE IN ART (1885)
- X NOTES ON J. E. MILLAIS, R.A. (1886)
- XI PASSAGES FROM EXHIBITION CATALOGUES, ETC.
- Plate section
Summary
“Mr. Ruskin in ‘gratefully accepting’ the dedication of Mr. Seymour Haden's mezzotint of Turner's mezzotint of Turner's ‘Calais Pier,’ has written to express his delight at the eminent etcher's attempt to revive that beautiful art. Mezzotint, says Mr. Ruskin, is the only satisfactory way in which Turner's pictures can be rendered in chiaro-oscuro. This being so, it would be well, if for no other reason, that the art should be maintained; but seeing that the demand for artistic reproductions has increased a hundredfold during the last quarter of a century, it is more than doubtful if the more rapidly executed and cheaper processes will allow of the continued existence of the fastidious and more costly method of free-hand mezzotinting. In all probability, unless some artist should arise, impelled, like Mr. Seymour Haden, by love of art without reference to gain, mezzotint will be permitted to drop out of the list of engraver's methods altogether.”
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- The Works of John Ruskin , pp. 492Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1904