Etching and other graphic arts : an illustrated treatise (1922)
Plowman, George Taylor, 1869-1932 · New York : Dodd, Mead and Co. · leaf 93
d also be true to a less degree with re-gard to the printing. The true etcher draws,bites and prints the plate himself. Briefly, the methods employed in makingan etching are as follows: a polished copperplate is covered with a kind of varnish calledan etching ground. The ground is smokedwith wax… … 3= S ^^ si 3 U Ic ^ ^ Q O ^ - < g ^ i Pi «OS O a: .,.^ ,11- ..■.|J. . .t ■! ,1 . OTHER GRAPHIC ARTS 55 with some varnish impervious to acid andimmersed in an acid bath. The acid willattack the copper only where the artist hasdrawn with the needle. When the acid hassufficiently eaten the lines of…
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