Drawing & engraving : a brief exposition of technical principles & practice (1892)
Hamerton, Philip Gilbert, 1834-1894 · London ; Edinburgh : Adam and Charles Black · leaf 217
by Amand-Durand This is a capital example of Rembrandts more finishedetchings. If the reader will compare this face and beard withthe flesh and hair in the line engravings by Schongauer andMarcantonio, he will soon perceive that etching, if lessdignified in style than burin work of the most severe… … ENGRAVING 139 greater than any of them, Vandyke. In the earlierpart of the present century etching was almost adefunct art, except as it was employed by engraversas a help to get faster through their work, of which engraving got all the credit, the public beingunable to distino-uish between etched…
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