| 单词 | soft-ground etching |
| 释义 | > as lemmassoft-ground etching soft-ground etching n. a process of printmaking using plates covered with a soft ground, producing prints with softened lines resembling chalk or pencil drawings; (also) a print produced by this process. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > printmaking > engraving > intaglio printing > [noun] > etching > types of, etching stone-etching1807 soft-ground etching1809 1809 London Rev. Nov. 356 The present work of Mr. Green is simply a book of soft-ground etchings. 1868 P. G. Hamerton Etching & Etchers v. xi. 340 In some books on engraving, ordinary etching is called soft-ground etching, to distinguish it from etching done in a hard ground, by the old masters. 1914 G. T. Plowman Etching & Other Graphic Arts xiii. 111 For soft ground etching melt together lard or tallow and an equal amount of etching ground. 1976 G. N. Ray Illustrator & Bk. in Eng. from 1790 to 1914 49/1 These soft-ground etchings were executed for the most part between 1805 and 1814. 2003 Woman's Art Jrnl. 24 5/1 Hayter had revived interest in line engraving and soft-ground etching. < as lemmas |
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