Examples from literature

• A Dutch etcher and engraver of the seventeenth century, who pursued her art from pure love of it, never trying to make her works popular or to sell them. 
• He is also an etcher of great merit, and an original sculptor. 
• No black-and-white draughtsman of our time, no wood-cutter, etcher, or line-engraver, worked with slower deliberation. 
• The etcher first covers the surface of the metal with a layer of some waxy substance and draws his picture through this coating, or "etching ground," as it is called. 
• This was the etcher of European renown.