Engraving and etching : a handbook for the use of students and print collectors (1907)
Lippmann, Friedrich, 1839-1903, Lehrs, Max, 1855-1938, Hardie, Martin, 1875-1952 · New York : C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 275
native-born artists of considerabledistinction, such as William Sherwin (1669—i/H)* FrancisPlace (1647—1728), Isaac Beckett (1653—1715 ?), RobertWilliams (worked 1700—1715) and John Smith (1654—1742). In their hands the art of mezzotint reached itsfull perfection, one special step in advance being… … Fig. 117. James MacArdell : Portrait (detail).255 256 ENGRAVING IN ENGLAND careful rocking of the plate with a finer and more delicateburr. As a result of this it became possible to producemuch richer tone effects, details could be more sharply-accented, and mezzotint work lost the hard coarseness…
Engraving -- History · Etching -- History
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