. Studio international . Mr. Frank Shorts Mezzotints. THE WESTS GOOD-NIGHT TO THE EAST BY FRANK SHORT, , tinting. So important does Mr. Short regard thisquestion of etching as an aid to mezzotint that heoften uses aquatint lines when he thinks that ahard etched or hard dotted line would insist toodefinitely—an expedient of his own, in which, how-ever, he finds he has been anticipated by some ofthe most eminent among the old mezzotinters. In this matter of etching with mezzotint work upon Turners Liber Studiorum andhis other drawings has, of course, proved a liberaleducat
. Studio international . Mr. Frank Shorts Mezzotints. THE WESTS GOOD-NIGHT TO THE EAST BY FRANK SHORT, , tinting. So important does Mr. Short regard thisquestion of etching as an aid to mezzotint that heoften uses aquatint lines when he thinks that ahard etched or hard dotted line would insist toodefinitely—an expedient of his own, in which, how-ever, he finds he has been anticipated by some ofthe most eminent among the old mezzotinters. In this matter of etching with mezzotint work upon Turners Liber Studiorum andhis other drawings has, of course, proved a liberaleducation, and in the reproduction given here ofthe famous Via Mala, the etching which Mr. Shortcopied exactly from Turners own in the extremelyscarce original plate, possibly mezzotinted also by thepainters own hand, can be clearly traced. Manyconnoisseurs, by the way, regard this wonderfulVia Mala as Mr. Shorts masterpiece, at all events,among those forty to fifty plates after Turner whichhave associated his name impcrishably with themasters, though s
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