A trio of eighteenth century French engravers of portraits in miniature. Ficquet, Savart, Grateloup (1899)
Andrews, William Loring, 1837-1920 · New York [Dodd, Mead & Co.] · leaf 56
to etching with acid, and is generallyspoken of as etching, but strictly speaking it isengraving. The strong points of etching in comparison withother arts, writes Mr. Hamerton in his Etching andEtchers, are its great freedom, precision and power.Its weak points may be reduced to a single head.The… … feifet The Towing Path.—Dry Point by Francis Seymour Haden. depends on the most delicate discrimination of thesevalues, still rarer. For the whole art of etching thereader is referred to the well-known treatise abovequoted; we shall add here only a few lines fromMr. Hamertons work descriptive of…
Ficquet, Étienne, 1719-1794 · Savart, Pierre, b. 1737 · Grateloup, Jean Baptiste de, 1735-1817 · Engraving
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