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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 36

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fmaller,and more faint; for the harder you lean, the deeperand larger your ftrokes will be. Of this you have anexample in the third figure marked r n suvhere lean-ing lightly at the beginning, viz.^ r. and then harderby degrees to n. and afterwards lighter by degreesto s. you make your ftroke… … Tpith AqyufortiS. 15 ^our fmall needle lengthen out your ftroke, as you[nditreprefentedinthetwofti-okes of the fifth Fi- ;urc. Some will firft make their iitroke with a roundleedle, and then pafte it over again with an Ovaloint to inlarge it in thofe places which they wouldlave deeper and bigger^…

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

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