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French etchers of the second empire (1916)

Bradley, William Aspenwall, 1878-1939 · Boston, New York : Houghton Mifflin Company · leaf 172

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ortrait, and that to get his hand in, — since hedrew only women, — he had tried to sketch himself. He works on uncovered copper with a diamondpoint which has a sharper turn on the metal than thesteel, and boasts that he can make a figure 8. Thisdiamond point, which comes from England, is, he… … Hellei;. Edmond de Goncocrt it was becoming the fashion to soHcit the privilege ofmaking his portrait. Raffaelh had ah-eady made a greatfull-length for the Exposition, and now foreign artistsactually visited Paris for the express purpose of fixingon paper, or on the copper-plate, their impression…

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