Master-Etser and student in workplace, Eugen Napoleon Neureuther, 1839 print Allegory of the danger of etching art. In an artists' workshop with bookcases, reduced plaster casts of classical images and on the left a leaf vituur for a window, master and student work. The student with cloth in front of his mouth pours the etching water into an etching bath, while the teacher is sitting with a thermometer and clock. The bottle says "acid nitro". In the smoke on the ceiling houses fireflies that are driven by monkeys. The challenge for the etcher is depicted by the struggle of the Archangel Michae

Master-Etser and student in workplace, Eugen Napoleon Neureuther, 1839 print Allegory of the danger of etching art. In an artists' workshop with bookcases, reduced plaster casts of classical images and on the left a leaf vituur for a window, master and student work. The student with cloth in front of his mouth pours the etching water into an etching bath, while the teacher is sitting with a thermometer and clock. The bottle says "acid nitro". In the smoke on the ceiling houses fireflies that are driven by monkeys. The challenge for the etcher is depicted by the struggle of the Archangel Michael with the demons from the underworld. In the etching water, "unpredictable" cobbles and angry monsters, which come into the picture when the timing of the etcher is not good, the devil is also in the harmfulness of the student's health. At the bottom of an empty spell band, in which the following warning text has been added in a later state: "Schützen Wohl Magst du den Mund Vor Dem Geist aus ätzendem Wasser. Gegen den Kobold in IHM Schützt Kein Mittel Dein Bild". paper etching engraver, etcher. the Archangel Michael (often in armour with sword or lance). artist at work, in his workshop

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