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Title: A Treatise on Etching

Author: Maxime Lalanne

Translator: Sylvester Rosa Koehler

Release Date: September 17, 2010 [EBook #33751]

Language: English

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A TREATISE ON ETCHING.

"Amongst Frenchmen Claude is the best landscape etcher of past
days, and Lalanne the best of the present day."--P. G. HAMERTON.

[Illustration: Frontispiece]

A TREATISE
ON
ETCHING.

TEXT AND PLATES
BY
MAXIME LALANNE.

* * * * *

AUTHORIZED EDITION, TRANSLATED FROM THE
SECOND FRENCH EDITION
BY
S. R. KOEHLER.

WITH AN INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER AND NOTES BY THE
TRANSLATOR.

* * * * *

BOSTON:
ESTES AND LAURIAT,
Publishers.

_Copyright_,
BY ESTES AND LAURIAT.
1880.

UNIVERSITY PRESS:
JOHN WILSON AND SON, CAMBRIDGE.

TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE.

So much interest has of late years been shown in England in the art of
etching, that it seems hardly necessary to apologize for bringing out an
English edition of a work on the subject from the pen of an artist whom
a weighty English authority has pronounced to be the best French
landscape-etcher of the day. It might be urged, indeed, that more than
enough has already been written concerning the technical as well as the
aesthetic side of etching. But this objection is sufficiently met by the
statement of the fact that there is no other work of the kind in which
the processes involved are described in so