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 58
eek of beauty, the soft texture,the sheen, and the graceful folds of a ladys gownor the brilliant lustre of the armor of her beltedand veray parfit gentil knight. An aquatintcomes next, and is a close second in the depictionof landscapes, but in figures and interiors it isfar and away surpassed by… … INTRODUCTION forth, producing no lines, but a continuous mat orbur, which when complete would give, if an im-pression were taken from the plate in this state, asheet of the deepest black. The scraper—r a c l o i r—removes this bur to a greater or less degree and givesthe various tones required in…
Ficquet, Étienne, 1719-1794 · Savart, Pierre, b. 1737 · Grateloup, Jean Baptiste de, 1735-1817 · Engraving
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