Category: Art
Paragraph 1. Definition 3 2. Knowledge needed by the Etcher 3 3. Manner of using the Needle.--Character of Lines 4 4. Freedom of Execution 4 5. How to produce Difference in Texture 5 6. The Work of the Acid 5 7. The Use of the Dry Point 5 8. Spirit in which the Etcher must wor...
85. =Wax Proofs.=--Our first desire, after the ground has been removed from the plate, is to see a proof. If you have no press, and yet desire to take proofs of your work after...
8. CHAPTER VIII.85. Wax Proofs 55 86. The Printing-Press 55 87. Natural Printing 56 88. Artificial Printing 56 89. Handwiping with Retroussage 57 90. Tinting with a Stiff Rag 57 91. Wiping with...
10. CHAPTER II.14. =Method of Using this Manual.=--As the general theory given in the preceding chapter may seem too brief, and may convey but an incomplete idea of the different operations in...
11. CHAPTER III.Instead of using a tray, I tell him, we can avail ourselves of another method, which is used by many engravers, and which consists in bordering the plate with wax. This wax,[6]...
12. CHAPTER IV.43. =Omissions.--Insufficiency of the Work so far done.=--The result you have obtained, I tell my pupil, as he shows a proof of the _first state_ of his plate to me, is not fina...
13. CHAPTER V.56. =Stopping-out Varnish dropped on a Plate while Biting.=--You are just in time, I continued, to profit by an accident which has happened to me. I dropped some stopping-out va...
15. CHAPTER VII.73. =The Roulette.=--The latitude which I gave you does not extend to the point of approving of all material resources without any exception. There is one which I shall not perm...
9. CHAPTER I.1. =Definition.=--An etching is a design fixed on metal by the action of an acid. The art of etching consists, in the first place, in drawing, with a _point_ or _needle_, upon a...
14. CHAPTER VI.66. =Two Kinds of Biting.=--Now that you have become familiar with the secrets of biting, I say to my pupil, and are therefore prepared to be on your guard against the accidents...
3. CHAPTER III.27. Bordering the Plate 20 28. The Tray 20 29. Strength of the Acid 20 30. Label your Bottles! 21 31. The First Biting 21 32. The Use of the Feather 22 33. Stopping Out 22 34. E...
2. CHAPTER II.19. The Transparent Screen 14 20. Needles or Points 14 21. Temperature of the Room 15 22. The Tracing 16 23. Reversing the Design 16 24. Use of the Mirror 17 25. Precautions to...
1. CHAPTER I.Paragraph 1. Definition 3 2. Knowledge needed by the Etcher 3 3. Manner of using the Needle.--Character of Lines 4 4. Freedom of Execution 4 5. How to produce Difference in Text...
4. CHAPTER IV.43. Omissions.--Insufficiency of the Work so far done 29 44. Transparent Ground for Retouching 29 45. Ordinary Ground used for Retouching.--Biting the Retouches 30 46. Revarnish...
5. CHAPTER V.56. Stopping-out Varnish dropped on a Plate while Biting 37 57. Revarnishing with the Roller for Rebiting 37 58. Revarnishing with the Roller in Cases of Partial Rebiting 38 59....
7. CHAPTER VII.73. The Roulette 49 74. The Flat Point 49 75. The Graver or Burin 49 76. Sandpaper 50 77. Sulphur Tints 50 78. Mottled Tints 51 79. Stopping-out before all Biting 51
6. CHAPTER VI.66. Two Kinds of Biting 43 67. Flat Biting.--One Point 44 68. Flat Biting.--Several Points 44 69. Biting with Stopping Out.--One Point 44 70. Biting with Stopping Out.--Several...