Word: plates
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Windsor's attention, and whatever Countess Mona von Bismarck, 65, was blaring in his ear seemed urgent too. But the Duke, as well as the photographers covering the Paris nightspot's new revue, found it hard not to focus on such a well-turned-out fashion plate as the Countess Marie Aline de Figueroa, 41, the American-born wife of the Spanish Count of Quintanilla...
...index of financial status, and decorated with monograms and coats of arms, it became a highly personal way for a Dutch burgher to advertise his worth. When Colonel Abraham de Peyster died in 1728, he left behind 1,403¾ oz. of silver, all executed in ornate flatware and plate...
...lugs on each front wheel they bolted sharp blades of the toughest steel, affixed so that the whirling edges would chop barbed wire to bits. Then they wedged one-quarter-inch sections of steel plate inside the bus to stop bullets...
Hayter experimented with substitutes for the wax. He tried using on a single plate various substances with different degrees of resistance to the acid. The acid, biting into the metal faster in one spot, more slowly in another, could produce complex and subtle effects not possible before. As the artist worked, the acid working on the copper would produce new images that as he observed them would excite his imagination...
...also learned, and taught other artists, how to impress the forms of textiles and other materials upon the plate to provide textural effects. He devised techniques for softening outlines, reproducing the fluffiness of a cloud, the delicacy of a veil, a swirl of movement as in his Tarantella. His discoveries and inventions opened up what was virtually a new realm of art: he showed that etching need not be merely a method of reproducing a drawing but an independent art form in itself, capable of effects that brushes or crayons could not achieve...