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Nr. 99 (June 1901)
DOI Artikel:Wedmore, Frederick: Recent etching and engraving
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19788#0032
Recent Etching and Engraving
admirably successful. Mezzotint has been allied engraving were expressed the original conceptions
with etching too, the most notable instance of of Andrea Mantegna and of Diirer; of Lucas van
that alliance being in the Liber Studiorum Leyden and of the German Little Masters. And
of Turner. But generally mezzotint has been it is through line engraving to-day that are made
employed alone, and its service has been public the ingenious fancies of that modern Little
greatest in the translation of the touch of the Master, Mr. Sherborn. In that medium we are to
painter. It is perfectly adapted to such trans- admire the skill of handiwork which Aldegrever
lation, and the broader the painter's touch the and the Behams would have been scarcely unwilling
better is mezzotint adapted to render it. For to acknowledge.
the moment, at the Painter Etchers, what has To get to particular engravers then, why not
been seen in mezzotint has been original work begin with Sherborn himself—a veteran ? Seeing
wholly—the best of it, perhaps, a lovely little sea- that by far the greater part of his work consists in
scape by Mr. Frank Short, which may really hold the provision of bookplates for the most studious
its own against the Weymouth Bay of Constable of the well-to-do and the least impecunious of the
as translated by David Lucas. But it is pre- learned, and seeing that a bookplate, to be
mature to speak of particular examples; I am acceptable to its average owner, has got to show
on the track now of the various methods, and we some recognition either of that owner's armorial
have not got to the end of them. One other bearings, or of his private fads in matters of taste,
method alone, however, so far as I remember, has and sometimes has got to show both—it is astound-
got to be enumerated, and that is line engraving, ing with what fertility and readiness Mr. Sherborn
Line engraving, like mezzotint, has been much pours out his inventions. Now and then—and I
employed in translation ; but we must never forget need not assign the cause of it—there is a certain
that, unlike mezzotint, it has been largely and incongruity, a certain crowding of subject-matter
most variously employed in original work. In line in Mr. Sherborn's work, which those great masters
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admirably successful. Mezzotint has been allied engraving were expressed the original conceptions
with etching too, the most notable instance of of Andrea Mantegna and of Diirer; of Lucas van
that alliance being in the Liber Studiorum Leyden and of the German Little Masters. And
of Turner. But generally mezzotint has been it is through line engraving to-day that are made
employed alone, and its service has been public the ingenious fancies of that modern Little
greatest in the translation of the touch of the Master, Mr. Sherborn. In that medium we are to
painter. It is perfectly adapted to such trans- admire the skill of handiwork which Aldegrever
lation, and the broader the painter's touch the and the Behams would have been scarcely unwilling
better is mezzotint adapted to render it. For to acknowledge.
the moment, at the Painter Etchers, what has To get to particular engravers then, why not
been seen in mezzotint has been original work begin with Sherborn himself—a veteran ? Seeing
wholly—the best of it, perhaps, a lovely little sea- that by far the greater part of his work consists in
scape by Mr. Frank Short, which may really hold the provision of bookplates for the most studious
its own against the Weymouth Bay of Constable of the well-to-do and the least impecunious of the
as translated by David Lucas. But it is pre- learned, and seeing that a bookplate, to be
mature to speak of particular examples; I am acceptable to its average owner, has got to show
on the track now of the various methods, and we some recognition either of that owner's armorial
have not got to the end of them. One other bearings, or of his private fads in matters of taste,
method alone, however, so far as I remember, has and sometimes has got to show both—it is astound-
got to be enumerated, and that is line engraving, ing with what fertility and readiness Mr. Sherborn
Line engraving, like mezzotint, has been much pours out his inventions. Now and then—and I
employed in translation ; but we must never forget need not assign the cause of it—there is a certain
that, unlike mezzotint, it has been largely and incongruity, a certain crowding of subject-matter
most variously employed in original work. In line in Mr. Sherborn's work, which those great masters
STUDY OF WILLOWS BY MISS C. M. POTT
iS