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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
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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orm, and the impression being thereverse of the original, whether taken from the plate or from thesulphur, certainty on this point is not always attainable. Soon the niello-worker felt in his turn the influence of the Engravingsengraver. Plates quite in the niello manner were done with the *^ ^^° O 1 ... mnnnpr express purpose of taking impressions. Sometimes it is extremelydifficult to make an absolute line of distinction between the twoclasses of work ; certain signs, however, if present, such as rivet-holes or inscription in reverse, declare for the niello proper, andimpressions of these, which were taken merely to show the craftsmanthe progress of the work, are of course extremely rare. Of thesecond category, niello-like engravings, the majority issued from theBolognese school of Francia, of which we reproduce an example byits most prolific exponent, to whose personality we shall recur at 44 THE EARLIEST ENGRAVERS the end of the chapter (Fig. 14). These niello-like engravings may
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