Etching and Etchers

Philip Gilbert Hamerton|Macmillan & Co.|R. Clay, Son(s), and Taylor

1868 · Illustrations: etching · Drawings and Prints

Etching and Etchers — Philip Gilbert Hamerton|Macmillan & Co.|R. Clay, Son(s), and Taylor

One of the principal proponents of the nineteenth-century etching revival in England, Hamerton published this treatise on the medium that also featured the primary contemporary and historical practitioners. He took pride in offering his readers an impression from an original Rembrandt plate printed by the Parisian etching specialist Auguste Delâtre. The author explains having to choose an obscure plate for the purpose, as the best-known subjects had by then been worn down to the point that their lines retained little ink and they printed "ghosts."

Artist
Philip Gilbert Hamerton|Macmillan & Co.|R. Clay, Son(s), and Taylor
Date
1868
Medium
Illustrations: etching
Department
Drawings and Prints
Credit line
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917

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