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...streets one grey morning, he thought it advisable to go to Madrid. Here he drank and fought, observed the ritual of singing under windows, gained greater fame for this than for his occasional painting. On another morning he was found in the gutter with a knife sharp as an etcher's needle in his back, was smuggled to Rome by friendly bullfighters...
ARTIST AMONG THE BANKERS-Will Dyson-Dutton ($2). Diatribe against the banking system by British Etcher-Cartoonist Will Dyson, with illustrations superior to text...
...Pierre Barbero (Rhône). 2) Max Dormoy (Allier), a well-known etcher. 3) Armand Dupuis (Oise). 4) Louis Gardiol (Basses Alpes). 5) Alfred La Court (Nord), who holds a responsible position on the French Chamber's Army Committee. 6) F. Ledoux (Ardennes). 7) Robert Mauger (Loire). 8) Jules Mitton (Eure et Loir). 9) T. Romastin (Department of Sarthe...
...instruction for art students the books contain little that any first-year student in an art school would not know, are of great value in showing the general public how prints are made, what to look for in the finished proof. Most interesting are the tipped-in photographs showing Etcher West and Woodcutter Leighton at work, pictures of all the etchers' and woodcutters' tools...
Everyone knows that an etching is made by scratching lines through the wax "ground" on a copper plate with a needle, then biting the exposed lines into the plate by dipping it in a bath of nitric acid. Few people know that the etcher's needle should never scratch the plate itself (unless he is making a drypoint). Depth of line for increased blackness is all done by action of the acid. A goose feather is the best possible tool for brushing away microscopic gas bubbles while the plate is in the bath. Much of the effect of Whistler...