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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 7

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 7 — , finest lines in a print havebeen bitten for a very short period ; the darkest, strongest ones for a compara-tively long period ; and all intermediate lines for periods of intermediate lengths.There are various ways of obtaining these results. In one—the traditionary pro-cess employed by the great… … A MODERN ETCHER. (KOHEUT BLUM.) finished lines are stopped out with protecting varnish, so that the acid can nolonger touch them, and the biting is resumed, these stoppings out being con-tinued until all the desired gradations have been successively arrived at.* Another process, usually called the…

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