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ArtLex on Etching (892 words)
ink is forced into the etched depressions, the unetched surfaces wiped, and an impression is printed.
Also, both the design etched on a plate and an impression made from an etched plate.
Rome and its ruins contributed to the revival of neoclassicism.
etching. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 (465 words)
In hard-ground etching the plate, usually of copper or zinc, is given a thin coating or ground of acid-resistant resin.
Soft-ground etching gives effects similar to those obtained in pencil or crayon drawing, while aquatint approximates the effects of a wash drawing.
Both seem to have originated in Germany, where Dürer’s etchings on iron, made between 1510 and 1520, were probably the earliest important examples of an art that in the following centuries was practiced by many of the greatest draftsmen and painters.
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