A short history of engraving (and) etching - for the use of collectors and students; with full bibliography, classified list and index of engravers (1908) (14760190486)

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Title: A short history of engraving (and) etching : for the use of collectors and students; with full bibliography, classified list and index of engravers
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Hind, Arthur Mayger, 1880-1957
Subjects: Engravers Engraving Etchers Etching
Publisher: London : A. Constable
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN



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intermixed as it generally iswith dotted work (geschrotene Arbeit), is also left out of our study, on ^ For a sound e.xposition of the principles of this process see S. R. Koehler, White Line Engraving for Relief Printing in the 15th and i6th Centuries, Reportof the National Museum, 1890, pp. 385-94. Washington, 1892. B
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Fig. 1.—The Tools used in the various Methods of Engraving and Etching. (Key on p. i8.) LINE-ENGRAVING 3 the ground that the method of printing these engravings in reliefbrings the art nearer in principle to wood-cut than to line-engraving.^ Our subject then is limited to the type of engraving on metal in The subjectintaglio, where the lines or spaces engraved serve as the design, ;iited towhicTT, except in occasional instances,- figures as black on white, or engravingsat least as a darker on a lighter tone. Gravure en taille-douce it is on metal,called in French, a term perhaps implying the joy of the craftsmanin engraving the line which is to be the design in itself, rather thana mere negative value to be laboriously removed. For a true appreciation of prints, which form the chief materialfor our study, it is essential to understand the main principles of thevarious processes by which plates may be engraved. A descriptionof these processes, in just sufficient detail to enable the