Word: hamerton
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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 out a name...