Etching and Etchers
London: MacMillan & Co., 1868. First Edition. 8vo; 10 1/8 x 5 5/8 inches (252 x 172 mm), xxvi, 354 pp. With 35 etchings by various artists, as called for, on folding, 5 double page. Original gilt-blocked cloth, rebacked in brown morocco with gilt title on spine; Lozenge-shape binder's ticket pasted inside back cover (Burn & Co., Kirby St. EC); black endpapers, a.e.g. Scattered light foxing, especially on preliminaries, binding square and tight, text pages evenly toned with some light pencil underlining in the Preface section; etchings are clean, in near fine condition.
AUTOGRAPH LETTER from the author to Roger Atkinson dated March 10th, 1880 affixed to verso of second free endpaper.
[Benezit VI, 1084; Hind p. 399].
This work offers an in-depth review of the art of etching, describing the various techniques involved, discussing connoisseurship, and surveying some of the most renowned practitioners of the art form. The artists profiled established masters including Callot, Turner, David Roberts, Whistler, Cruikshank, Durer, Rembrandt (Bartsch 118; Biörklund 41-F; Hollstein 118), and Goya; and many contemporary working artists: Gautier, Haden (Schneiderman 106), Daubigny (Delteil 111), Jongkind (Delteil 14), Palmer (Lister 9), Haden (Schneiderman 106), Cope, Redgrave, and others. The plates include examples mainly from the English, French, and Dutch schools, including an etching printed from an ORIGINAL COPPER PLATE by REMBRANDT (p. 250).
Philip Gilbert HAMERTON (1834 – 1894) was an artist and critic who worked for a number of periodicals, including the "Fine Arts Quarterly Review," "Macmillan's" magazine, "Atlantic Monthly," and the "Saturday Review," and "The Portfolio," which he launched in 1869 and which DNB calls "an innovative publication in terms of the many different forms of reproduction it employed, including etching on India paper and autotype photography." Through this publication, "Hamerton was thus responsible for an important diffusion of graphic art forms in England during the last three decades of the nineteenth century."
Condition: Near Fine.
Item number: 1734
Price: $3,800.00
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