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American etchers. Reprinted from the Century magazine for February 1883, with a brief additional chapter from the New York Star (1886)

Van Rensselaer, Schuyler, Mrs., 1851-1934 · New York, F. Keppel & co: · leaf 13

An illustration from American etchers. Reprinted from the Century magazine for February 1883, with a brief additional chapter from the New York Star, 1886, leaf 13
any dilletante. And they imply that perhaps the chief thing to be prized in an etcherswork is economy of labor. As the art is essentially a free and rapid one, andas it is difficult and (so far as the action of the acid is concerned) alwaysmore or less uncertain, ones effects should be produced… … »w>- ^^<i. /aar • AN OCTOBER DAY. (K. SWAIN C.IFIOUD.) of course, that the desired effect has been secured. Work done with few linesand vital ones, its meaning suggested by subtile short-hand methods, whichleave the white paper to play an important part in the general result, appeals tomost…

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