The art of etching : a complete & fully illustrated description of etching, drypoint, soft-ground etching, aquatint & their allied arts, together with technical notes upon their own work by many of the leading etchers of the present time / by E.S. Lumsden.

Main entry:

Lumsden, E. S. (Ernest S.), 1883-1948.

Title & Author:

Publication:

Philadelphia : J.B. Lippincott Co., 1925.

Description:

376 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.

Series:

The New art library

Notes:
Includes index.
Introductory -- Essentials -- The plate -- Grounds and 'grounding' the plate -- Points, scrapers, burnishers and gravers -- Mordants -- List of materials and tools -- Plan of an etching room -- Methods of biting -- Printing -- Additional work : mistakes and their remedy -- Transferring -- Soft ground, aquatint, and the pen method -- Drypoint and mezzotint -- Printing papers -- Flattening and mounting -- Mildew and restoring -- The medium in relation to the artist's idea -- A brief survey of etchers up to the year 1800 -- Dürer and Lucas van Leyden -- Rembrandt and Van Dyck -- Goya -- British etchers of the nineteenth century -- Meryon and the French revival -- Haden and Whistler -- The moderns -- Personal notes by eminent etchers on their methods.
Gift of Lessing J. Rosenwald, 1943-1975.

Summary:

"... Probably the finest work on the techniques of etching, drypoint, soft-ground etching, aquatint, and the allied arts. Lumsden, the renowned etcher, Associate of the Royal Scottish Academy, and author of the article on etching technique in the Encyclopaedia Brittanica (14th edition), was unsurpassed in his knowledge of the methods and the background of the art. His work is invaluable for the absolute beginner as well as for more advanced etchers, who will find it a matchless survey of various techniques and a major sourcebook for the history of their art."-- Goodreads.com.

Subject:

Etching Technique.
Dry-point Technique.
Eau-forte (Gravure) Technique.
Pointe-sèche Technique.
etching (printing process)

Added entries:

Levis, Howard Coppuck, former owner.
Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress)
New art library.

Holdings:

Location: Library main cormier 57838
Call No.: ID PO10063 CORM5; ID:90-B618
Status: Available

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