Word: printings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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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...
...late campaign, the Democratic Party was defeated about as decisively as in 1920 - more so in one respect : it ran third in 13 states. The Demo cratic New York World was moved to print the following editorially...
Section 1018 (reënacting a section of the previous law) forbade any person to print or publish in any manner not provided by law any part of an income tax return: Penalty, $1,000 fine and one year in prison?or less...
...firm a believer in violence. When an Opposition deputy is too curious about the administration, he is put out of the way if not by the order at least with the acquiescence of Mussolini Socialist newspaper editors are harried unmercifully, even when they are not allowed to print their papers. But such methods are not conclusive. It is the old attempt to kill an idea by killing the men who champion it, and it is about as successful as the inquisition was Indeed, the bloody instruction which the Fascists teach is only too eagerly copied by the Socialists...
There is also a very early print of St. Etienne du Mont which is very brilliant. This print like many others in the collection, has passed through some of the greatest and most important collections of Meryon's etchings. The most interesting etching; however, is the earlier of two different prints of L'Abside de Notre Dame, which is the actual print given by Meryon to his teacher Blery, and bears Mryon's presentation in his own handwriting. The collection is a most valuable one, and a very important addition to the etchings already in the possession of the museum...