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Reproductions of pencil sketches by the American etcher, Lester G. Hornby, are now, on exhibition in the Print Room of the Fogg Art Museum. They have been presented to the Museum by John T. Spaulding...
...trusted head hostler and, a year later, bore him a son, John. This boy went to school till he was 17, was then bound apprentice to a surgeon, read Wordsworth, Byron, Spenser, looked into Chapman's Homer, wrote some stumbling poetry, made friends with Editor Leigh Hunt, Painter Haydon, Etcher Joseph Severn, Publish- er's Reader Woodhouse. Although lie was only five feet high, the beauty of his countenance and the vivacity of his manners charmed all who met him; the more discerning of his acquaintance found in his verse the evidence of great talent. He, happy in the promise...
Joseph Pennell, famed painter, etcher, published* a gasconade, prefaced with a diatribe?Etchers and Etching. Writing it, gall scored his pen; gloom puckered his mouth. In his foreword, he denounces, derides all others who have written about etching. The curator of prints in the British Museum, he is demolished; "poor old Hamerton" (Hamerton whose works have long been the only authority on etching), he is spurned. He employs many great names, many swaggering pronouns. "Whistler," says Etcher Pennell, "Whistler and I. . . ." "Whistler and me. . . ." Down the list of the world's immortal etchers he runs his pen, here scratching...
...etchings were drawn by Charles Meryon, the most original etcher of the mid-nineteenth century, and one of the greatest architectural etchers of all times. Printed in brownish and often on green paper, which Meryon himself prepared, the etchings are unusually brilliant. There are 20 eachings in the collection given by Mr. Marvin, and of these there are two and even four impressions from a plate in its different stages of development...
Throughout the U. S. will soon be exhibited an educational cinema entitled The Magic Needle, demonstrating the art of etching for the first time in complete visual form, from beginning to end. William Meyerowitz, famed American painter-etcher, in a narrative setting, goes through the process of etching, from posing the model, a ballet dancer, to drawing off the first proof from the press. The Magic Needle may prove a boon to those persons who frequent print rooms and constantly become involved in violent altercation trying to distinguish between engraving, etching and dry point...