The Golden Age of Engraving: A Specialist's Story about Fine Prints: With 262 Illustrations Showing the Progress of the Art from the Year 1465 to the Year 1910
The Golden Age of Engraving: A Specialist's Story about Fine Prints: With 262 Illustrations Showing the Progress of the Art from the Year 1465 to the Year 1910
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. 1910 Excerpt: ...a concentration and a reticence requisite in no other art." And he goes on to say that, for these reasons, etching, of all arts, is the least suited to the half-educated artist. We have all, alas, seen too many demonstrations of the truth of this! I confess that in thus quoting from Seymour Haden's writings, I am ...
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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. 1910 Excerpt: ...a concentration and a reticence requisite in no other art." And he goes on to say that, for these reasons, etching, of all arts, is the least suited to the half-educated artist. We have all, alas, seen too many demonstrations of the truth of this! I confess that in thus quoting from Seymour Haden's writings, I am putting my own efforts at a great disadvantage. The quotation stands out like the new patch in the old garment. Admitting that Seymour Haden was a born artist, richly endowed with the creative faculty, how was it that he also became the superb technician that he is? This did not come to him by nature--nor does it come to any one. It came to him through long, hard, earnest study and practise. He studied the best models--Rembrandt's etchings above all. He was never afraid to pay the necessary price for a faultless proof by Rembrandt. But even before he began to form his unsurpassed collection of the old masterpieces it was his custom to borrow a portfolio of such etchings from a London dealer whom I myself remember as a very old man, Mr. Love, of Bunhill Row, and carrying home such treasures he would sit up at night with them--not only delighting in their beauty, as other amateurs do, but also studying and analyzing the method and technic of each master. Then, after long practice in drawing, and with an intimate technical knowledge of the recognized masterpieces of etching, he himself began to etch. Thereafter his hard-earned holidays in the KENSINGTON GARDENS Size of the original print, 8 by 5 inches. From the etching by Seymour Haden. This is a splendid example of the artist's masterly drawing of tree-forms. Among modern etchers of landscape Seymour Haden easily ranks first. EGHAM Size of the original print, 5 by 71 inches. From the etchings b...
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