So skilful was Rembrandt as an etcher that the nobleness of his ideas and the depth of his nature are apt to be overlooked.
Greatly transcending Japanese expression, the modernetcher has undoubtedly accepted moral support from the islands of the Japanese.
Nevertheless, the French etcher would never have written his signs so freely had not the Japanese so freely drawn his own.
Rembrandt, the maker of pictures, had become a vivid personality, a master whom he reverenced; but Rembrandt the etcher was unknown to him.
Piranesi even in his own little fenced-off coign of art is not comparable to the etcher of the Hundred Guilder print, nor are there close analogies in their respective handling of darks and lights.
He instantly recognised the commercial value of Meryon's Paris set, but knew the etcher was a hopeless character.
A Dutch seventeenth-century etcher and draughtsman, Reiner Zeeman by name, attracted him.
The etcher was very suspicious as to paper and printing.
He was a great engraver andetcher whose passion was the antique.
No one can confuse Whistler the etcherwith the etcher Rembrandt; the profounder is the Dutchman.
Hamerton had written of the French etcher in 1875 (Etching and Etchers), and various anecdotes about his eccentric behaviour were public property.
Hamerton admits that the French etcher was "one of the greatest and most original artists who have appeared in Europe," and berates the public of the '60s for not discovering this.
There have been etchers of greater power, of more striking originality, but there has never been an etcher equal to him in a certain delicate elegance.
This plate was evidently one of the Carceri set--sixteen in all--which the etcher improvised after some severe cerebral malady.
But his colour is often hot and muddy, and perhaps he will go down to that doubtful quantity, posterity, as an etcher and designer of genius.
At the present time they are ignored or defied, and the bigger the plate the better pleased is the etcher and his public.
Thames Warehouses and Black Lion Wharf won him recognition as "the most admirable etcherof the present day," at South Kensington Museum, where in 1862 an International Exhibition was held.
No etcher had got such fullness of colour without a mass of cross-hatching that takes away from the freshness.
Once when an etcher gave him a not very wonderful proof, he tore it up, saying, "I do not collect etchings, I make them!
The little figures are bitten as well and in the same way as La Vieille aux Loques, etched three or four years afterwards; to look at them is to know that Whistler was a consummate etcher technically before he left the Coast Survey.
He is also an etcher of great merit, and an original sculptor.
With normal eyesight we should not have had the man of ghostly reveries, the patient, charming etcher on a miniature block of evanescent prose, the forger of tiny chords, modulating into Chopin-like mist.
In them he will find ample justification for the high position to which Rembrandt as an etcher has been elevated by his successors in the art.
Sir Charles Holroyd has made his chief reputation as an etcher of exceptional ability, combining strength with delicacy, and a profound technical knowledge of the art.
Félicien Rops has best interpreted Baudelaire: theetcher and poet were closely knit spirits.
It may be heard at its deepest in his study of Félicien Rops, the Belgian etcher and painter, who interpreted Baudelaire's femmes damnées.
Stendhal, whatever else he may be, is an incomparable etcherof character.
Shabby and creased as usual, he looked far more like a clerk in some establishment where clerks were not morally compelled to imitate dandies than like an etcher of European renown.
In George's estimation Mr. Prince did not look the part of an etcher of continental renown.
In general the original engraver or etcher conceives and carries out his design in specific relation to its medium; its expression in another would demand an entirely different treatment.
The changes introduced in this plate in a later state are remarkable, and show how completely the etcher can transform his subject.
Rembrandt remains for us the greatest etcher who has ever lived, as well as one of the noblest exponents in art of the deepest and most generous emotions of life.
He surely stands among the immortals, one of the foremost painters of all time, the greatestetcher that has yet appeared.
We treat it with respect, almost with reverence, for we recall that these very sheets of paper were dampened and laid upon the etched plate, already prepared by the hands of the great etcher himself.
There is one notable etcher whose chequered career may well be regarded with interest, for it reveals a depth of artistic enthusiasm almost unparalleled in the art annals of this or any other country.
Having needles, the etcher prepares a copper plate by covering it with a coating of asphaltum and wax, and this, if you wish to speak technically, must be called the etching ground.
The etcher draws his picture while the plate lies in the mordant.
The etcher first covers the surface of the metal with a layer of some waxy substance and draws his picture through this coating, or "etching ground," as it is called.
You will notice that the difference between the work of an engraver and that of an etcher is that the former cuts the lines in his plate with engraving tools, while the latter only draws his picture on the plate and the acid cuts the lines.
Here the line (properly so called) is entirely abandoned, and the attention of the etcher is given to texture and chiaroscuro.
Isaac Cruikshank, his father, was, as I have said, a fairly known water-colour painter and etcher of popular subjects.
Rowlandson's skill as an etcher had further, about this time, provided him with abundance of work in executing the humorous conceptions of Woodward and Bunbury after his own characteristic fashion.
Here he works line by line to clearest light, precisely as the etcher draws his negative upon copper, only on glass it is the positive picture which is produced.
It is indeed quite within the bounds of possibility that the method of the glass painter (and not that of the damascener, as generally supposed) may first have put the etcher upon the track of his technique.
The etcher protects a copper-plate by means of a waxy covering called etching-ground, and wherever this ground is removed the acid bites the copper.
The etcher runs no risk of any kind by his rule of abstinence.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "etcher" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
