English translation: white accents / white highlights
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Explanation: in running text, accented in/with white or highlighted in white
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Or accentuated in white, but I wouldn't use these for a caption. I would just put 'white accents'.
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Sunset in a Wood is an excellent example of how the exemplary Van Ruisdael depicted the interior of an untamed forest. Straight white accents indicate reflections in the pond in the middle foreground. This pond is also the nucleus of the picture and its only flat surface. On the right two stems of dead trees have fallen into the pond and rest in an oblique position. On the left only the trunk of another tree is still standing, with the mossy terrain behind it uneven and becoming hilly in the background. It is overgrown with wild brushwood from which giant trees rise high up, their unruly crowns silhouetted against the gloomy sky. http://www.oldmasters.net/nsa-ruisdael-sunset.html
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12 (anon). Old Mother Bunny. Akron, Ohio, USA: Saalfield Co.;
(1915); two thin card shaped cream coloured pages, with full colour on
outside "cover" pages and on inner spread, the other pages in blue
outline and type and white accents on the illustrations; approx.
10.6x5.5". On the both covers, a large and determined mother bunny,
with red shoes and a manic expression, attacks a carrot with her paring
knife; inside, on plain pages, are period drawings of clothed rabbits,
on the center spread are two copies from Beatrix Potter's Peter Rabbit
(with a kindly mother!) and a naturalistic rabbit family.
VG; spine is rubbed through colour and split 1" at the bottom, exterior
a bit toned, ow very bright, clean, unwrinkled and unmarked. $55 http://www.oldchildrensbooks.com/catalogues-lists/catalogue-...
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Leonardo da Vinci and Studio, "Head of a Child in Three Quarter View", ca. 1472-82, 5 ¼ x 4 ¾ in. (134 x 119 mm), metalpoint highlighted in white gouache; extensive studio-reworking with pen, brush, brown wash. Paris, Louvre. http://www.klinegallery.com/Verrocchio01.html
As an art historian of many years standing I can confirm that all of the suggestions given here are equally correct. I am intrigued to see others attempt to assert otherwise. One auction house chooses one term for consistency's sake, another chooses another. Evidently my colleague and I work for different establishments, but I really doubt whether anyone working within our specialism would argue against any of the solutions given here. Just to ensure that our Asker is not mislead!
I was wondering how you manage to verify which of these terms is more common. Presumably not by doing a Google search, when so many instances inappropriate to this context come up for all of the suggestions made here.
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25 mins confidence: peer agreement (net): +5
heightened with white
Explanation: I regularly translate art catalogues and this is our agreed English translation for the term.
Hope this helps.
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