Main entry:

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

Title & Author:

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, late associate of the Royal Scottish Academy.

Publication:

New York : Dover Publications, Inc., [1962]

Description:

376 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

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--"negative" and "relief" etching -- Soft ground, aquatint, and the pen method -- Daypoint 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.
Also issued online.

ISBN:

0486200493 (paperback)
9780486200491 (paperback)

Subject:

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

Added entries:

Dover Publications, Inc., publisher.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 124
Call No.: NE2130.L8 1962 (PO1985)
Status: Available