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Etching, its principles and practice : a book for students and amateurs

Shrubsole, W. G., d. 1889 · 1889 · London : G. Rowney · 9 pictures

An 1889 London instruction manual by W. G. Shrubsole, published by G. Rowney, aimed at students and amateur etchers learning the craft of etching. Its pictures are plain line engravings of artists' materials: a paint or colour box with pans, a row of graduated quill-like pens or brushes labelled crow, duck and goose, and a hand sketching a ship on a pad with a pencil. A designer could take from them a clean, hatched, catalogue-style vocabulary for showing tools and materials.

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