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Three-tone drawings

Scope note

Drawings executed in silverpoint on pigmented, prepared paper and highlighted in white, where the range of the three resulting tonal values is exploited to depict three-dimensional form.

Term type

AAT

Getty AAT term number

3000100217

Broader Terms used

<drawings by technique>

Equivalent Terms used

three-tone drawing

Created

13yrs ago

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