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 89
passed into Italy from Germany.Primitive Italian engravings consist usually of hard andheavy outlines, dug deeply into the metal. Inside theseoutlines the shadows are expressed, or as a rule simplysuggested, by a few sets of oblique lines laid evenly andwithout cross-hatching. This modelling with… … ^g- 33- Florentine engraver of the fifteenth century : Portrait (reduced) 70 ENGRAVING IN ITALY making drawings with pen or pencil. At a later periodthe lines were laid more regularly, the execution becamemore tender, and the shadows were more frequentlyexpressed by cross-hatchings. Finally the…
Engraving -- History · Etching -- History
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