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The Engraver and the Etcher

1643
17th C.
Europe, France
10 1/16 x 12 15/16 in. (25.6 x 32.8 cm)

By (primary)
Abraham Bosse French, 1602–1676

Medium: Engraving and etching

Credit Line: Palmer Gross Ducommun Fund

Accession Number: 1994.17

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Elizabeth Kathleen Mitchell, Ph.D., Burton and Deedee McMurtry Curator and Director of the Curatorial Fellowship Program, Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University:
Printmaking always has straddled the worlds of art and commerce. The sheet etched by Arnold de Jode is a dealer’s advertisement. It combines a charming etched vignette inspired by motifs from antiquity with a functional list of the prints on sale at Tooker’s London print shop. The image by Abraham Bosse illuminates the technical practice of the etcher, at left, and the engraver, at right, while showing shopper, a gentleman and two monks, browsing a display of their inventory.

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engravers (incisers)
Use for those skilled or practiced in incising marks on the surface of a hard material, such as glass or metal, with a sharp tool, when the designs or images created are for their own sake and not to be printed from. For those who practice the printing process of engraving, use "engravers (printmakers)." [February 1993 descriptor added.]

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A solution of gum arabic and acid used in desensitizing lithographic plates and stones. TYLER [July 1990 descriptor added.]

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