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Drawing & engraving : a brief exposition of technical principles & practice (1892)

Hamerton, Philip Gilbert, 1834-1894 · London ; Edinburgh : Adam and Charles Black · leaf 120

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process of photogravure now (1892) workedby MM. Boussod and Valadon, which is not engraving, but castingby electrotype. 74 DRA WING AND ENGRA VING casting (as in taking impressions from seals), is amere accidental suggestion and not an essential partof the art. Engraving is still much used… … STRENGTH Line Engraving by Marcantonio RaimondiReproduced in Heliogravure by Amand-Durand Strength is here personified by a woman acting as if shewould break a column. The brilliancy of this engraving is due in great part to theabsence of local colour. The flesh, the draperies, the column,and the…

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