American Etchers (Classic Reprint). Schuyler Van Rensselaer
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Author: Schuyler Van Rensselaer
Page Count: 40 pages
Published Date: 27 Sep 2015
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Publication Country: United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9781330138274
File size: 43 Mb
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Author: Schuyler Van Rensselaer
Page Count: 40 pages
Published Date: 27 Sep 2015
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Publication Country: United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9781330138274
File size: 43 Mb
File Name: american.etchers.(classic.reprint).pdf
Download Link: american etchers (classic reprint)
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Excerpt from American Etchers The term etching has a definite and limited significance too often disregarded in popular speech. Its maltreatment seems the more inexcusable when we remember that it is not a word originally wider in meaning which has been narrowed by the custom of the studio into limited technical applicability; but that its etymological, dictionary force is at one with its employment in artistic parlance. And as it denotes not an effect but a process, there should not be the least confusion with regard to it. Even if it were possible - as it is not - to produce identical effects by other methods, no work so produced could be called etched work. To etch comes from the same root as to eat, the Greek eow. Only such prints as are made from plates that have been acted upon by acid - bitten into, eaten away - are to be named etchings. To produce a print of this kind, the artist takes a plate - usually of copper, though sometimes of zinc - and coats it with a preparation formed of wax and other ingredients. Upon this "ground," after it has been blackened with smoke so that his strokes will show more clearly, he draws his subject with a sharp-pointed instrument called a "needle" or "point," using just sufficient pressure to remove the ground along the line of his strokes without scratching the metal underneath. The plate is then immersed in a shallow pan of acid called a "bath." This acid, or "mordant," acts upon the uncovered portions of the plate - upon the artists lines, that is - but has no effect upon the portions still protected by the ground. When the "biting" is accomplished, the plate is cleaned, inked and printed on a roller-press. This is the bald theory of etching; but its practice is a much more complicated affair than might be thought. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."
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