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Augustin Hirschvogel

He contributed 23 etchings to Sigismund von Herberstein's 1549 edition of Rerum Moscoviticarum Commentarii (Notes on Muscovite Affairs), and more than 100 Old and New Testament illustrations for the verses of Hungarian reformer Péter Perényi (1502–48).

Bertha Jaques

Although self-taught, she drew inspiration from the etchings of Rembrandt, whom she held in unsurpassed regard as a printmaker.

Camille de Tournon-Simiane

Broadly speaking, the Forum recognized in Piranesi's etchings was transformed to the forum we know today.

Catalogue raisonné

There are about 20 catalogues purporting to list Rembrandt’s complete etchings; each one building on the other, in some cases adding etchings, in others removing etchings and in others adding different states of the etchings.

Centro Cultural Mexiquense

More modern items include a printing press operated by José Guadalupe Posada), illustrations and etchings from José Zubieta and José Vicente Villada from the late 19th and early 20th century, Andrés Molina Henríquez and Francisco Murguía of the Mexican Revolution and Agustín Millán and Abundio Gómez from the latter 20th century.

Chelsea Art Museum

Rotating selections of Miotte’s work are shown at the museum on a regular basis, as are selections from the museum permanent collection,which contains 500 works, including paintings, etchings, sculpture, ceramics, tapestries, and works on paper, primarily focusing on L'Art Informel and Abstract Expressionist artists from Europe and the United States, including Pol Bury, Mimmo Rotella, and Jean-Paul Riopelle.

Colby College Museum of Art

More than 300 etchings and lithographs make up the Whistler Collection, representing some of the rarest and most beautiful impressions by James Abbott McNeill Whistler.

David Young Cameron

His etchings, which examined light and shade, again show the influence of the Hague School as well as Whistler and Rembrandt.

Diagonal Method

Research by Westhoff has resulted in the finding that important details on paintings and on etchings of Rembrandt, such as eyes, hands or utilities, were placed exactly on the diagonals.

Etching revival

By the late eighteenth century, with brilliant exceptions like Piranesi and Tiepolo, most etchings were reproductive or illustrative.

Filippo Napoletano

Starting in 1620 he reproduced in etchings part of his collection of animal skeletons owned by Johann Faber, a Bavarian physician-naturalist residing in Rome and a member of the scientific Accademia dei Lincei.

Fizzles

In Paris, Johns made etchings for the book, with the aid of Aldo Crommelynck.

Fran Bull

In 2003 Bull’s award-winning series of carborundum etchings entitled Barcelona! (2001) was exhibited at Gallerie Universitini in Plzeň, Czech Republic.

Frederick Wedmore

This was followed by The Four Masters of Etching (1883), with original etchings by Sir FS Haden, Jules Jacquemart, JM Whistler, and Alphonse Legros; Etching in England (1895); an English edition (1894) of E Michel's Rembrandt; and a study and a catalogue of Whistler's Etchings (1886, 2nd edition 1899).

Furness Abbey

William Wordsworth visited on a number of occasions and referred to it in his famous 1805 autobiographical poem The Prelude, whilst Turner made numerous etchings of the Abbey.

George Boba

His name in full, or included in a monogram very small, is found on some etchings of landscapes with historical subjects, after Primaticcio; Bartsch gives an account of six of them.

George Elbert Burr

Over the next five years, as they traveled in Italy, Germany, and the British Isles, Burr amassed sketches and watercolors that would provide the source material for his copperplate etchings of European scenes.

Irene's Cunt

The first edition was illustrated with etchings by André Masson which were aesthetically very similar to those of Georges Bataille's Story of the Eye.

Jacques le Moyne

The one existing painting believed to be by Le Moyne himself (owned by the New York Public Library) has been argued to be a replica of one of de Bry's etchings, rather than a source for it, by anthropologist and ethnohistorian Christian Feest.

Jean-Baptiste Louvet de Couvrai

Born in Paris as the son of a stationer, he became a bookseller's clerk, and first attracted attention with the first part of his novel Les Amours du chevalier de Faublas (Paris, 1787; English translation illustrated by etchings by Louis Monzies in 1898); it was followed in 1788 by Six semaines de la vie du chevalier de Faublas and in 1790 by La Fin des amours du chevalier de Faublas.

John DePol

The University of Delaware Library holds the only known collection of DePol's early etchings.

Josef Abel

Among his famous works are paintings and etchings of Klopstock in Elysium, Orestes and Electra, Socrates and Theramenes as well as Emperor Francis I of Austria.

Joseph Webb

As the market for etchings all but dried up following the Wall Street Crash in October 1929, he supplemented his income by teaching etching at the Chiswick School of Art and undertaking varied commercial work, such as society portraits and posters for Shell-Mex.

Karl Kasten

After viewing his colorful etchings of the 1950s, art critic Alfred Frankenstein observed that Kasten had "discovered a new softness, liquidity, and fluency of effect in the bitten plate and with this a new way of expressing the modern artist's preoccupation with space and movement."

Maarten Krabbé

In the war years of 1940 -1945, the now famous series of etchings was created on the subject of Cervantes'sDon Quixote.

Max Klinger

In Elsa Bernstein's Naturalist play Dämmerung, Klinger is mentioned in the third act when Carl talks of being able to afford "etchings by Klinger" for 80 francs.

Michael Werner Gallery

Recent major exhibitions include Sigmar Polke: Lens Paintings, Wilhelm Lehmbruck: Sculptures and Etchings, and Major Works of Marcel Broodthaers, as well as the first New York solo exhibitions of Hurvin Anderson, Aaron Curry, and Enrico David.

Nevada State Route 430

Designed by John B. Leonard, the structure includes etchings to resemble masonry.

Otis Kaye

He also created ink drawings of currency, and made etchings after Rembrandt, Whistler and Picasso, as well as other artists.

Peter Grippe

While primarily known as a sculptor working in bronze and clay, he created a portfolio of etchings by 21 artists (examples include Willem de Kooning, Jacques Lipchitz, and Peter Grippe himself) and 21 poets (including Frank O'Hara, Dylan Thomas, and Thomas Merton) in a work entitled 21 Etchings and Poems.

Reginald Pole Carew

He formed a substantial collection of etchings by Rembrandt, which were sold after his death by Benjamin Robert Wheatley in London, 13–15 May 1835.

Richard Diebenkorn

In 1990, Diebenkorn produced a series of six etchings for the Arion Press edition of "Poems of W. B. Yeats", with poems selected and introduced by Helen Vendler.

Robert Schöller

When applying to the Vienna's Academy of Fine Arts in 1968, he showed up at the interview with only two etchings which he had to borrow back from clients, and eventually was told to go and paint on his own because there was not much to teach him, but, he also was invited to join a master's class.

Stephen Scott Young

After graduating from high school, Young attended the Ringling College of Art and Design in Sarasota, Florida, where he was introduced to etchings and began to paint with watercolor.

The Sword of Kahless

The sword itself was created specifically for the episode, and was made to seem more elaborate than the bat'leths previously seen in Star Trek, including hand etchings to make it appear similar to Damascus steel.

Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library

In addition, there is an outstanding collection of etchings by Wenceslaus Hollar (1607–1677) from the collection of Sidney Thomson Fisher.

World Erotic Art Museum Miami

In 2011 WEAM premiered the first US exhibition of rare erotic Rembrandt Etchings, In 2012 the curator Helmut Schuster arranged the first Solo show of Helmut Newton in Florida in Cooperation with the MDM in Salzburg.


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