This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 Excerpt: ...-for the most part in sepia,3 etched the main outlines in vigorous line,4 and then put the plate in the hands of some mezzotint engraver to finish the subject by the aid of his drawing and under his supervision. Turner originally intended to include ioo plates in the work, but only 71 were published,5 some 20 more ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 Excerpt: ...-for the most part in sepia,3 etched the main outlines in vigorous line,4 and then put the plate in the hands of some mezzotint engraver to finish the subject by the aid of his drawing and under his supervision. Turner originally intended to include ioo plates in the work, but only 71 were published,5 some 20 more plates being engraved or partially finished. F. C. Lewis finished the first plate (R. 43) in aquatint, but this was his only plate, and Turner inclined thenceforward to the use of mezzotint, though aquatint is not infrequently found in combination. The other engravers who contributed were Charles Turner (23 published plates, 1 unpublished), W. Say (1i published, 2 unpublished), Dunkarton (5 published plates), G. Clint (2 published plates), J. C. Easling (frontispiece, 3 plates alone, and 1 in collaboration with Annis), W. T. Annis (1 alone), S. W. Reynolds (2 published plates), T. Hodgetts (3 published plates), H. Dawe (4 published, and possibly several of the unpublished plates), T. Lupton 6 (4 published, and 2 unpublished plates), and finally 10 of the published plates and some of the unpublished were mezzotinted by J. M. W. Turner himself. One of the most powerful of the plates entirely done by Turner, the function of the Severn ami the Wye (R. 28) is reproduced in its early etched state (showing signs of the mezzotint rocker in places) in Fig. 91. In a few instances (e.g. R. 40, 55, 70) the preliminary work was done in soft ground, while in others (R. 90 and 91) the plate never got beyond this stage. The Liber was issued in fourteen parts (each containing five plates) between 1807 and 1819, but was then relinquished for lack of success. Some of the drawings, which were not reproduced at the time, have been recently engraved with 1 In the words...
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