Etching in England - With 50 illustrations.

I READ, the other day, in a note of Abraham Haywar to his translation of Faust, how Schlegel wrote of Gtheto M. de Rmusat,Il imait gure donner des explications, et il jamais voulu faire des prfaces. It would not be seemly, perhaps, that in the present volume of brief historical and critical record, I should endeavour to imitate so august a silence. Twenty-seven years have passed since one of the most interesting and judicial of English writers upon Fine Art published the book which did amongst us the service of popularising, in some degree at least, the knowledge of Etching. The craft of the aquafortist has, since then, become a medium of expression generally accepted, if not precisely understood; and the half-educated young woman of our period, far from considering the art of whose achievements I treat, as a form of elegant pen-drawing, (as she did in Mr. Hamerto{viii} first days), is likely perhaps to holdwith Carry, in my own little storythat there is nothing in the world so artistic as a very large etching. The public, if it has not become properly instructed in the technique of Etching, has at least had the opportunity of becoming so. Hence I have conceived it to be no part of my business to discourse much upon methods. For them the reader may turn now, not only to Mr. Hamerton, but to Sir Seymour Haden, with his great practical experience, his native endowments, and his finely trained taste; to Mr. Herkomer, with his frank and interesting personal record; to M. Maxime Lalanne; to Mr. Frank Shortbut the list is too long for me to attempt to exhaust it. What is done hereand done I think for the first timeis to devote a book to the survey, not of good etched work generally, nor of all etched workall popular etched workwrought in England, but of such work as has been wrought in England of the finer and truer kind. That has led to many omissions; for, in the last generation and before it, people were popularas many are to-daywho were clever draughtsmen, perhaps, but bad etchers. It has led, too,{ix} to many inclusionsinclusions not possible to Mr. Hamerton. Much of the best work done in England has been done since he wrote; and a little excellent work, done long before he wrote, he happened to pass over. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 68011
Author: Wedmore, Frederick
Release Date: May 7, 2022
Format: eBook
Language: English
Publisher: George Bell and Sons
Publication Date: 1895
Publisher Country: United Kingdom