["The Stars" mezzotint engraving]

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Mezzotint engraving print of a woman draped in fabrics with a wreath of ivy around her head playing a lyre with her face to the night sky. "The Stars" was designed by Middelton and printed by American printmaker John Sartain in Philadelphia in the early 1800s.

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1 art print : mezzotint, etching and stipple, b&w ; 20 x 14 cm.

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Sartain, John [1797..1856].

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This artwork is part of the collection entitled: Jeane Dixon and Emerich P. Korecz Collection and was provided by the UNT Libraries Special Collections to the UNT Digital Library, a digital repository hosted by the UNT Libraries. It has been viewed 223 times, with 9 in the last month. More information about this work can be viewed below.

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Mezzotint engraving print of a woman draped in fabrics with a wreath of ivy around her head playing a lyre with her face to the night sky. "The Stars" was designed by Middelton and printed by American printmaker John Sartain in Philadelphia in the early 1800s.

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1 art print : mezzotint, etching and stipple, b&w ; 20 x 14 cm.

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John Sartain (October 24, 1808 – October 25, 1897) was an English-born American printmaker who built his career in Philadelphia pioneered mezzotint engraving in the United States. Sartains intaglio prints can be found primarily through Sartain's Union Magazine and book illustrations.

Mezzotint is a printmaking process of the intaglio family. It was the first printing process that yielded half-tones without using line- or dot-based techniques like hatching, cross-hatching or stipple. Mezzotint involves marking the plate with a rocker to create a surface of metal burs that hold the ink and allow prints with soft gradations of tone and rich and velvety blacks.

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  • Preferred Citation: Jeane Dixon and Emerich P. Korecz Collection (AR0133), University of North Texas Special Collections

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Jeane Dixon and Emerich P. Korecz Collection

This collection contains digitized prints from rare and scholarly books owned by Jeanne Dixon, who acquired the collection from Emerich P. Korecz.

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  • [1797..1856]

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Sartain, John. ["The Stars" mezzotint engraving], artwork, [1797..1856]; (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc2016484/: accessed May 24, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.

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