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Title: A short history of engraving (and) etching : for the use of collectors and students; with full bibliography, classified list and index of engravers
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Hind, Arthur Mayger, 1880-1957
Subjects: Engravers Engraving Etchers Etching
Publisher: London : A. Constable
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
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e art of printing. He also seems tohave made experiments in processes like aquatint as early as LePrince.- Many other engravers during the latter half of the seventeenthcentury and the early part of the nineteenth did work in the crayonmanner, but for the most part they are the same artists who worked \ 1743 is generally given as the date of his birth, but as it appears from the 1758edition of Bosse (revised by Cochin) that he had already produced successful plates\\\\k,^pastel manner, Basans date, 1735, very probably has better authority behind it.Cf. however, A. M. Hind, Burl. Mag., Sept. 1907. 2 )sjQtg_ ^^ _ jjjg title-page and two plates in the 1767 edition of Cayluss Recueilde Testes de caractcre et de charges dessiuiespar Leonard da )-inci. FRANCOIS—DEMARTEAU—BONNET 289 in stipple, and their names will be reserved for our summary of thatmethod. A completely different method, that of soft-ground etching,^often effects results which are surprisingly like crayon prints, the aim
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Fig. 100.—J. C. Francois. Portrait of Sir Isaac Newton. of both methods being essentially similar. The student will oftenneed care to discriminate between the two. In Holland a process standing midway between that of the J. 1. Ryiaert.crayon and stipple manners was practised by J. J. Bylaert, anddescribed by him in a book published in 1772,- the base idea of ^ See Chap. \III. pp. 240, 241, 244 ; Chap. IX., aquatint, p. 303 ; and Chap.X. pp. 313, 337. - See General Bibliography. U 290 CRAYON MANNER AND STIPPLE which is the method of dotting with points (■ poinfons) of varioussizes to obtain the texture, which Francois achieved largely by theroulette. He refers to having done prints after Van Goyen andSaftleven in this manner. The aim he had in view was still therendering of the texture of chalk, and 1 have met no prints of hiswhich could be strictly classed with stipple.Punch-engrav- The method of engraving entirely by dots,^ which, in combination;>g- with elements of the crayon

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