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A Treatise on Etching

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By Maxime Lalanne
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A practical manual that explains the art and technique of etching, beginning with a clear definition and discussion of etching's character and expressive possibilities. It gives step-by-step guidance on tools and materials, plate grounding and smoking, drawing with the needle, and the controlled action of acids for biting, including stopping-out, strength, and temperature effects. Later chapters cover finishing methods—retouching, dry-point, scraping, burnishing, reducing over-bitten areas—and how to remedy common accidents. An introductory chapter and translator's notes address beginner technical difficulties and offer practical advice on obtaining or making supplies.

Transcriber's notes:

  • Obvious typos and inconsistencies corrected/standardised:
    • Bruxelle to Bruxelles,
    • Nitrid Acid to Nitric Acid,
    • i.e. to i. e.,
    • Société des aqua-fortistes to Société des Aqua-fortistes (as elsewhere in text),
    • Epreuves to Épreuves (as elsewhere in text),
    • cardboard to card-board,
    • overbitten and over bitten to over-bitten,
    • travelling board to travelling-board (as elsewhere in text).
  • Other inconsistencies generally left as in original:
    • Zinc/zinc v Zink/zink,
    • facsimile v fac-simile,
    • nowadays v now-a-days,
    • India-rubber v india-rubber,
    • Rembrandt van Rhyn v Rembrandt van Rijn.
  • Table of Contents: expanded (compared to original book) by including all sections in the List of Works. Note that the section headed My Dear M. Lalanne in the text is called Letter by M. Charles Leblanc in the Table of Contents.
  • Plate IX and page xxiv: the writing on the plate is not very clear, but the building is actually called the Waag, this has been used in the text.