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 9
burin ; with the roulette —a tiny wheelthat gives results analogous to those of mezzotinting; with pumice-stone, toroughen the surface; and in more than one way besides. Moreover, when theplate leaves the etchers hands, the printer often has his special work to do.The simplest way to print an… … KIVA DEGL1 SCHIAVONI, VENICE. (FRANK DUVENECK.) to obtain flat tints, films of ink, of greater or less strength, are often left overportions of the plate or (after it has been wiped) are brought up out of thesunken lines by a peculiar application of the rag—a process known as retroussage.And these…
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