She carved portraits in boxwood, modeled them in wax, etched them on glass or copper, and cut medallions in ivory.
She alsoetched them on copper, and colored them herself.
He gave me a specimen of some prospects he took in Italy, and etched upon the copper by his own hand.
Very pleasing drawings may thus be etched upon glass; and they may be rendered more effective by dusting the outline with a little vermilion.
Slices of the fossil etched with an acid show these appearances very perfectly, and can even be printed from, so as to present perfect nature-prints of the structure (Fig.
With a Frontispiece etched by Leopold Lowenstam, after the Death Mask.
With a Frontispiece designed and etched by Alma Tadema.
With a miniature frontispiece designed and etched by H.
As we entered, the draught from the door sent a tongue of flame darting to mid-air from the central fire, and scores of tawny faces with glance intent on the speaker were etched against the dark.
The lines of a white-clad figure etched themselves against the cave wall.
Lanky and baked brown, in each wrinkle of his face the sun had etched a smile.
But the charmers of Bodie and its bad men and the millions its hills produced were not so deeply etched on his memory as the job he lost because he did it well.
I have etched the bit with the rock a little larger below; and if the reader knows the spot, he will see that this piece of the drawing, reversed in the etching, is almost a bona fide unreversed study of the fall from the Lauffen side.
I have etched in Plate 74, at the top, the chief lines of its composition,[2] in which the first great purpose is to give swing enough to the water.
The chapter headings are etched by Adolphe Lalauze, and the subjects represent scenes from plays illustrating the costumes, manner, and appearance of the actors of Cibber's period, from contemporary authorities.
But conversation soon faded out between us, as we made our way throughetched mysteries of black and silver under thickset leafless branches.
The masts of native boats lying along the river bank were etched in black lines crowding one over another, on the lightly washed-in background of blue.
The surface of alabaster may be etched by covering over the parts that are not to be touched with a solution of wax in oil of turpentine, thickened with white lead, and immersing the articles in pure water after the varnish has set.
The scale is porcelain, having the degreesetched upon it, and burnt-in a permanent black.
Terrestrial Radiation Thermometer= is an alcohol minimum thermometer, with the graduations etched upon the stem, and protected by a glass shield, as shown in figure 65, instead of being mounted on a frame.
Slowly the sunset grew brilliant--then the foregrounds gave up their detail in a soft veiling of purple dusk, and the tree between the house and the road became a dark ghost-shape, etched in the unmoving majesty of spread and stature.
The branches of the great walnut were etched against a sky that would have been bright with stars were it not that the moon paled them, and she gazed up with a hand resting lightly on the broad-girthed bole of the stalwart veteran.
We remember that the panorama of the past life is etched upon the desire body during a period varying from a few hours to three and one-half days, just subsequent to demise.
It was later explained how this panorama of life is etched into the desire body and forms the basis of retribution after death.
As the panorama of the past life is etched into the shells they have a memory of incidents in connection with these relatives, which facilitates the deception.
After the neutron irradiation, the same surface isetched again, and the new tracks counted.
The old tracks, having been etched twice, now appear larger and thus can be distinguished from the new ones that were caused by ²³⁵U fission.
They reasoned that a region so intensely disturbed by the passage of a fission fragment should be etched more easily and deeply than the undisturbed surrounding crystal.
The fission clock method works this way: A cleavage face or a polished surface of a crystal or glass fragment is etched with a suitable solvent.
Yet it was all as clean-cut in his mind as etched lines, and round each line sprang flowers and singing birds.
This is but fair; and it is not in France only that the public taste for etched work, large and small, is justified by the talent of the artists who publish it.
His achievement numbers more than 2,000 prints, which, in spite of their small size, and the generally trifling nature of the subjects, deserve to be classed amongst the most remarkableetched work of the seventeenth century.
Of this drawing I have etched a reduced outline in Plate +21+.
I have etched the portion of the picture which includes this passage, on page 221, on its own scale, including the whole couloir above the gallery, and the gallery itself, with the rocks beside it.
The fan etched from drawings by William Williams, a name which suggests an English origin of the idea.
Pure line-engraving is frequently employed, although most line-engravers make use of the etched line as a foundation for subsequent work with the burin.
Another, very neatly drawn and etched on a folio plate, and dated February 19th, contains great variations, and wants much of the pointed meaning of the genuine print.
Another of these engraved hand-screens consists of a frame composed of two large eagles, with the arms of Austria and Medicis, enclosing a view of the Villa Reale near Florence, freely etched in the manner of Israel Silvestre.
The decorations are etched and rudely coloured by hand; the sticks walnut, inlaid with ivory.
If we might conceive etched or engraved fans becoming again popular in the twentieth, as they were in the eighteenth century, it might be an interesting speculation as to how Mr. Brangwyn would treat an etched fan.
Other fans were issued, these probably by another publisher, giving the various scenes grouped together, the figures slightly rearranged to suit the space, indifferently etched in outline, and printed in red on skin.
In the matter of landscape the etched plates by Claude and Ruysdael are good examples for study, and in animal life the work of Paul Potter and Dujardin.
Outwardly cheerful and composed, that faint pallor and the few lines of strain etched about her mouth and chin struck him now with a tremendous significance.
When the moon etched silver bars upon the corncrib floor he went to bed, regretting the preposterous fanlike spread of the corncrib walls.
Your face, all tears and sorrow and sweetness," said Brian stubbornly, "etched itself on my memory the night Don ran away.
Whatever the nature of the disease that had wasted his body and etched shadows of pain upon his subtle face, he never spoke of it.
The face his memory etched upon the mist made its appeal to every finer instinct of his courage.
He drew designs for engravers, and etched a Judgment of Midas.
He etched a plate, representing Falstaff, Pistol, and Doll Tearsheet, with other theatrical characters, in allusion to a quarrel between the players and patentees.
