ent to artistswho had emigrated from Flanders and Holland, such asAbraham Blooteling, Gerard Valk, Nicolas Verkolje, andPieter van Somer. After about 1670 the place offoreigners was taken by native-born artists of considerabledistinction, such as William Sherwin (1669—1714), FrancisPlace… … 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 sharplyaccented, and mezzotint work lost the hard coarseness…
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