An annotated catalogue of the examples exhibited of etchers and painter-engravers' work.
The Etchings of Rembrandt, and Dutch Etchers of the Seventeenth Century.
Apart from other etchers of the period are Jules Jacquemart and Felix Braquemond, remarkable for their exquisite delicacy in the reproduction of surface texture.
The most notable living etchers are chiefly found in England, and include Sir Frank Short, famous also for his mezzotints; D.
Instead of the huge crowbar used by most etchers he worked with a perfectly balanced, beautifully designed little needle three or four inches long, made for him by an instrument-maker in Paris.
And the Philadelphia Society of Etchers organised in the same year an International Exhibition at the Academy of Fine Arts.
The Society of Painter-Etchers opened their first exhibition in April at the Hanover Gallery.
Articles in Scribner's on Whistler and Haden and American Etchers added to the interest.
For instructions in printing see Hamerton's "Etchers and Etching.
To preside over a society consisting of young bloods, etchers of European renown, and pillars of the architectural profession was an ordeal for her.
Murray, a number of etchers whose fame is justly great.
Etchers differ in opinion as to whether the needle ought to scratch the copper or simply to glide upon its surface.
Some artists sharpen their needles so as to present a cutting edge which, when used sideways, scrapes away a broad line; and many etchers use needles of various degrees of sharpness to get thicker or thinner lines.
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.
That he was suspicious of his fellow-etchers is illustrated in the story told by Sir Seymour Haden, who bought several of his etchings from him at a fair price.
Imitation has been called the bane of originality; suppress it as a factor, and nine-tenths of living painters, sculptors, etchers would have to shut up shop.
In the hands of the majority of etchers a large plate is an abomination, diffused in interest, coarse of line; but Brangwyn is not to be considered among this majority.
He was a man of genius, one of the greatest etchers and lithographers of his century, an artist with an intense personal line, a colossal workman and versatile inventor--why has he been passed over and inferior men praised?
Speaking exactly, this was but an application to the general execution of a work of a process adopted long before by etchers and line engravers as a means of partial execution.
Although the Dutch etchers display in the totality of their achievement the same ideal and the same tendency, each keeps, if only in the matter of workmanship, a certain distinction and character of his own.
Now the skilful Dutch etchers do not come singly, nor at long intervals.
After coating the stone with the etching-ground, it is reversed while still warm, and blackened by applying the flame of a tallow or wax candle, as the copper-plate etchers do with their plates.
The new smaller works of Herr Gleissner were finished very soon, and it became necessary to find more work to keep my etchers and four printers busy.
Be that as it may, this assistant thought fit to repeat to Mr. Whistler what had passed, and also his own impressions as to the motive of the comparison and the inquiries which the Painter-Etchers had instituted.
Nor is it altogether certain that the Painter-Etchers did anything more than compare, for their own satisfaction as connoisseurs, the works of Mr. Whistler and "Frank Duveneck.
Painter-Etchers themselves were the only people who had ever had any doubt!
You may also throw a few scraps of copper into it the day before using it; the old etchers used for this purpose a copper coin, larger or smaller, according to the volume of the bath.
Etchers who are entitled to be considered authorities will advise you to avoid as much as possible all rebiting by means of revarnishing, as it results in heaviness, and never has the freshness of a first biting obtained with the same ground.
Some years ago, a school of etchers arose among us, whose mission it is to interpret those works of the brush which, by the delicacy and elegance of their character, cannot be harmonized with the severity of the burin.
Some etchers find it more convenient to commence with the sky and the background, on account of the points of resistance encountered by the needle in the more deeply bitten lines of the trees, which destroys their freedom of execution.
Many etchers do not think it necessary to weaken the acid as described in the text.
In sending to the etchers a drawing in which a shading medium is to be introduced, the practice is to mark such portions as are to be shaded by scribbling over with blue pencil; this is at once understood better than written instructions.
Other engravers and etchersof the XVII century are well represented.
As to modern etchers and engravers, the collection presents an embarrassment of riches.
Etchers are thus tempted to use tone, and many masters, from Rembrandt down, have worked in tone more often than in line.
Etchers and lithographers often add a few touches of color not only as a contrast to the grays, but to cause the beholder to imagine the whole color-scheme.
Of all the French etchers who, from time to time, went to London for the "Portfolio," I believe M.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "etchers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
