A history of engraving & etching from the 15th century to the year 1914 : being the third and fully rev. ed. of "A short history of engraving and etching" / by Arthur M. Hind.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hind, Arthur M. (Arthur Mayger), 1880-1957.

Standardized Title:

Short history of engraving & etching

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Engraving--History.

Engraving.

Etching--History.

Etching.

Prints--History.

Prints.

Engravers.

Physical Description:

xviii, 487 p. : ill., ports ; 22 cm.

Other Title:

History of engraving and etching from the 15th century to the year 1914

Place of Publication:

New York : Dover Publications, [1963]

Contents:

Introduction: Processes and materials

The earliest engravings (the fifteenth century)

The great masters of engravings: their contemporaries and immediate followers (about 1495-1550)

The beginnings of etching and its progress during the sixteenth century

The decline of original engraving: the print-sellers; the great reproductive engravers of the School of Rubens; the first century of engraving in England (about 1540-1650)

The great portrait engravers (about 1600-1750)

The masters of etching: Van Dyck and Rembrandt; their immediate predecessors, and their following in the seventeenth century (about 1590-1700)

The later development and decay of line-engraving (from about 1650)

Etching in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries: the great Italian etchers; the archaisers and amateurs; the satirists; Goya

The tone processes: mezzotint, the crayon manner and stipple, aquatint, colour-prints

Modern etching

Appendix I: Classified list of engravers

Appendix II: General bibliography.

Notes:

"Unabridged and unaltered republication of the third, fully revised edition, as published by Houghton Mifflin Co. in 1923."--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 393-419) and index.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Ex libris Louis & Henry J. Magaziner.

OCLC:

362153