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The art of graueing, and etching, wherein is exprest the true way of graueing in copper. Allso the manner & method of that famous Callot, & Mr. Bosse, in their seuerall ways of etching (1662)

Faithorne, William, 1616-1691 · [London] Published by Willm. Faithorne. And sold at his shop next to ye Signe of ye. Drake, without Temple Barr · leaf 33

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e your ftrokes thicker at one endthen at the other; as the fecond letters A B fhewsyou, then you muft lean on your point with yourhand harder at the beginning, and by degreeslighter and liq;hter towards the end. If you w^ld have your ftiokes to be (iicii as are re-prefented in the third figure… … yfifb Aqua fortis. 13 then by degrees lighter and lighter till yoiicome tothe end, Thefe three forts of lines or hatches may indif-ferently ferve for all manner of hatching your fiia-dowsinanydefignwhatfoever, as appears inthefi-gares, M N. OP. Q^GR. TE V. wherein is ma-nifcftj that the Ihadowing…

Callot, Jacques, 1592-1635 · Bosse, Abraham, 1602-1676 · Engraving · Etching

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