Etching and Etchers
One of the principal proponents of the nineteenth-century etching revival in England, Hamerton published this treatise on the medium that also featured the primary contemporary and historical practitioners. He took pride in offering his readers an impression from an original Rembrandt plate printed by the Parisian etching specialist Auguste Delâtre. The author explains having to choose an obscure plate for the purpose, as the best-known subjects had by then been worn down to the point that their lines retained little ink and they printed "ghosts."
Artwork Details
- Title: Etching and Etchers
- Author: Philip Gilbert Hamerton (British, Laneside, Lancashire 1834–1894 Boulogne-sur-Seine)
- Publisher: Macmillan & Co. Cambridge
- Printer: R. Clay, Son(s), and Taylor (London)
- Date: 1868
- Medium: Illustrations: etching
- Dimensions: 10 5/16 x 7 5/8 x 2 1/16 in. (26.2 x 19.3 x 5.2 cm)
- Classification: Books
- Credit Line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917
- Object Number: 17.3.2641(28)
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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