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Copper engraving: 183 × 119 mm: B63 The Deformed Landser Sow: 1494–1498: Copper engraving: 118 × 126 mm: B95 The Prodigal Son: 1494–1498: Copper engraving: 247 × 191 mm: B28 The Small Fortune: 1495–1496: Copper engraving: 120 × 66 mm: B78 The Small Courier: 1496: Copper engraving: 110 × 78 mm: B80 A Cook and his Wife: 1496: Copper ...
Rembrandt's teachers in Leiden were Jacob van Swanenburgh [note 1] (from 1621 to 1623, [5] with whom he learned pen drawing [6]) and Joris van Schooten. [note 2] [7]However, his six-month stay in Amsterdam in 1624, with Pieter Lastman and Jan Pynasc, was decisive in his training: Rembrandt learned pencil drawing, the principles of composition, and working from nature. [6]
The raising of Lazarus: the small plate: 1642 B082: 1: The descent from the cross: a sketch: 1642 B105: 2: St. Jerome in a dark chamber: 1642 B188: 4: The flute player [L’espiegle] 1642 B257: 1: Man in an arbor: 1642 B026: 1: Self portrait in a flat cap and embroidered dress: About 1642 B120: 1: The Spanish gypsy ‘Preciosa’ About 1642 ...
Line engraving. Line engraving is a term for engraved images printed on paper to be used as prints or illustrations. The term is mainly used in connection with 18th- or 19th-century commercial illustrations for magazines and books or reproductions of paintings. It is not a technical term in printmaking, and can cover a variety of techniques ...
Traditional copper work in Mexico has its origins in the pre Hispanic period, mostly limited to the former Purépecha Empire in what are now the states of Michoacán and Jalisco. The reason for this was that this was the only area where copper could be found on the surface. After the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire, the Spanish took ...
Etching is part of the intaglio family. In pure etching, a metal plate (usually copper, zinc, or steel) is covered with a waxy or acrylic ground. The artist then draws through the ground with a pointed etching needle, exposing the metal. The plate is then etched by dipping it in a bath of etchant (e.g. nitric acid or ferric chloride). The ...
Etching by Daniel Hopfer, who is believed to have been the first to apply the technique to printmaking. Etching is traditionally the process of using strong acid or mordant to cut into the unprotected parts of a metal surface to create a design in intaglio (incised) in the metal. [1] In modern manufacturing, other chemicals may be used on other ...
In the first state the background is plain; the landscape of state II was probably added some years later. In printmaking, a state is a different form of a print, caused by a deliberate and permanent change to a matrix such as a copper plate (for engravings etc.) or woodblock (for woodcut). Artists often take prints from a plate (or block, etc ...