and to make it lie on both the depressions and the projections of the grain. There is a particular neces-sity for care in laying this blackground, because it is by scrap-ing away the ink that SirHubert obtains all the toneeffects that are required in thepicture he is producing. Justas mezzotinters… … SELF-PORTRAIT. FROM A LITHOGRAPHBY SIR HUBERT VOX HERKOMER, R.A. Sir Hubert von Herkomer s Lithographs scraping the lighter will be the resulting tone—and it is obvious that unless the ground is full andrich in quality to start with, any wide range ofgradation in the subsequent work cannot be…
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