Book1866
A Treatise on Etching
Maxime Lalanne
The standard nineteenth-century etching manual, arguing the needle's spontaneity on the plate is what separates etching from the discipline of engraving.
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Visual Arts · Printmaking & Works on Paper
Etching
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Book1868
Etching and Etchers
Philip Gilbert Hamerton
Argues etching's freehand spontaneity lets an artist's individual temperament show through more directly than any other reproducible medium, making the case that drove the 19th-century etching revival.
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