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Drawing & Engraving. A Brief Exposition of Technical Principles & Practice.
Drawing & Engraving. A Brief Exposition of Technical Principles & Practice. With Numerous Illustrations Selected of Commissioned by the Author.
By Philip Gilbert Hamerton. Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers; Honorary Member of the Burlington Fine Arts Club Author of 'Etching and Etchers,' 'The Graphic Arts' Etc. Etc. Etc.
London and Edinburgh. Adam and Charles Black 1892.
8vo (230 x 172mm. 9 x 6¾"), in grey-green cloth binding with title printed in gilt on cover and spine. Some scuffing to cover.
Philip Gilbert Hamerton (1834-1894), the English artist, art critic and author was involved in the ninth edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica published between 1875 and 1889. Shortly after he decided to create this sole volume focusing on the art of drawing and engraving. There are ten chapters on drawing with chapters on 'drawing in the middle ages', 'linear drawing in ancient greek', 'landscape design', and 'drawing for photographic processes'; there then follow a further eight chapters on engraving with chapters on 'principal varieties of engraving', 'etching', 'mezzotint', and 'photographic processes of engraving'.
[Ref: 22082]   £65.00  
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The Etcher's Handbook.
The Etcher's Handbook. Giving an Account of the Old Processes, and of Processes recently discovered. Illustrated by the Author. "What, then, is the amount and kind of previous knowledge and skill required by the etcher?...Finally, it is the acumen to perceive the near relationship that expression bears to form, and the skill to draw them - not separately, but together."-Fine Arts Quarterly Review.
By Philip Gilbert Hamerton, Author of "Etching and Etchers."
London: Charles Roberson & Co., 99, Long Acre. 1871. Dryden Press: J. Davy and Sons, 137, Long Acre, London.
8vo. Original cloth covers with gilt lettering.
Twenty-two chapters and five etching and one dry point illustrations on the art and processes of etching, including chapters on dry point, etching from nature, Haden's negative process and Hamerton's negative process. A manual more concerned with the materials than with the grammar of etching, including some of Hamerton's own developments, such as positive white etching ground.
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Indian Pastime.
Indian Pastime.
Hamerton inv. et lith.
Printed by Graf & Soret. [n.d. c.1845.]
Very fine & rare coloured lithograph. 234 x 285mm. Laid on album page, slightly time stained.
An indian pastime; two young ladies enticed by a young man playing bells; an Indian temple seen in the background through the trees.
[Ref: 24187]   £140.00   (£168.00 incl.VAT)
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The Peruvian Galley.
The Peruvian Galley.
Hamerton lith.
Pr. by Graf & Soret, 14 Newman Street. [1845.]
Rare coloured lithograph. 240 x 324mm. 9½ x 12¾". Very fine colour.
Two elegantly dressed young women ride in an elaborately carved canoe, paddled down a river by a man wearing Native American feathered headdress. The boat has an unusual design; the bow in the form of a large winged creature, with the paddle manuveured through its mouth.
[Ref: 24189]   £160.00   (£192.00 incl.VAT)
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