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Definitions of etching in various dictionaries:
noun - an impression made from an etched plate
noun - an etched plate made with the use of acid
noun - making engraved or etched plates and printing designs from them
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Sep 15 1998 Irish Times (Crosaire) |
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In Rembrandt's time, his reputation for this type of art was greater than for painting |
This verb for an artistic process applying acid to metal comes from the Dutch, & many Dutch masters were good at it |
Rembrandt was a master of this seven-letterprintmaking method, as seen here |
Rembrandt turned this engraving method involving acid into an art form |
It's the process of decorating metal by using acid to bite patterns into the surface |
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a print produced by the process of etching. |
engrave (metal, glass, or stone) by coating it with a protective layer, drawing on it with a needle, and then covering it with acid to attack the parts the needle has exposed, especially in order to produce prints from it. |
(of an acid or other solvent) corrode or eat away the surface of (something). |
cut or carve (a text or design) on a surface. |
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Etching is traditionally the process of using strong acid or mordant to cut into the unprotected parts of a metal surface to create a design in intaglio (incised) in the metal. In modern manufacturing, other chemicals may be used on other types of material. As a method of printmaking, it is, along with engraving, the most important technique for old master prints, and remains in wide use today. In a number of modern variants such as microfabrication etching and photochemical milling it is a crucial technique in much modern technology, including circuit boards. * In traditional pure etching, a metal (usually copper, zinc or steel) plate is covered with a waxy ground which is resistant to acid. The artist then scratches off the ground with a pointed etching needle where he or she wants a line to appear in the finished piece, so exposing the bare metal. The échoppe, a tool with a slanted oval section, is also used for "swelling" lines. The plate is then dipped in a bath of acid, technicall |