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etching, vbl. n.|ˈɛtʃɪŋ|
[f. as prec. + -ing1.]
1. The action of the vb. etch; the art of the etcher.
1634J. B[ate] Myst. Nat. 140 Etching is an imitation of Engraving, but more speedily performed. a1691Boyle Wks (1772) III. 459 The art of etching, whereby copper and silver plates may be enriched with figures. 1762Hume Hist. Eng. lxxi. §27 Prince Rupert..was the inventor of etching. 1845J. Pye Patron. Brit. Art ii. 50 Etching is not my profession.
2. a. concr. A copy or representation produced by the process of etching; an impression from an etched plate.
1762–71H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Paint. (1786) I. 244 His etchings for Aesop's fables and view of Bruges were much esteemed. 1783Cowper Lett. Wks. (1876) 127, I have an etching of the late Chancellor hanging over the parlour chimney. 1860C. Sangster Sonn. 161 These leaves are merely etchings of the artist.
b. transf.
1765Sterne Tr. Shandy vii. xxxii, Never is my imagination so busy as in framing his responses from the etchings of his countenance.
3. attrib., as etching-club, etching-needle, etching-printing, etching-varnish, etching-wax; etching figure, pit = etch figure, pit (s.v. etch v.2 4); etching-ground, the composition with which the metal plate, etc. is covered preparatory to etching.
1878Hamerton Engraving in Encycl. Brit. VIII. 444/2 *Etching clubs, or associations of artists for the publication of original etchings.
1877E. S. Dana Textbk. Min. ii. i. 118 Analogous to the *etching-figures are the figures produced on the faces of some crystals by the loss of water.
c1790J. Imison Sch. Art ii. 51 Take a copper plate prepared as before..lay the *etching ground upon it, and etch the outlines of your design.
1821Craig Lect. Drawing vii. 374 The use of such a cushion has..been generally laid aside, since the *etching-needle has been employed.
1925Jrnl. Iron & Steel Inst. CXI. 588 Deep etching with picric or nitric acid fails to develop *etching pits. 1935A. Sauveur Metallogr. & Heat Treatment (ed. 4) ii. 17 The figures thus outlined, in reality small cavities, are often called ‘etching pits’ or ‘etching figures’.
1885Bookseller 5 Mar. 311 *Etching Printing has recently received especial care and attention.
1860Piesse Lab. Chem. Wonders 162 *Etching varnish is made of virgin wax and asphaltum.
1875Ure Dict. Arts II. 298 One process of engraving on glass is carried out by covering the glass with an *etching wax, etc. |