Etching and Etchers
Author Philip Gilbert Hamerton British
Publisher Macmillan & Co. British
Printer R. Clay, Son(s), and Taylor British
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One of the principal proponents of the nineteenth-century etching revival in England, Hamerton published this treatise on the medium that also featured the primary contemporary and historical practitioners. He took pride in offering his readers an impression from an original Rembrandt plate printed by the Parisian etching specialist Auguste Delâtre. The author explains having to choose an obscure plate for the purpose, as the best-known subjects had by then been worn down to the point that their lines retained little ink and they printed "ghosts."
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