Whistler as I knew him . - L_ IRVING AS PHILIP OF SPAIN With dry point added, undescribed in THE ETCHER 93 the ink which cannot be imitated. It is of a texturewhich only age can produce. The texture of paperchanges considerably with age. As years go on alltraces of size disappear; yet you feel that at onetime it must have contained a considerable has been proved over and over again by practicalexperiment that for etchings old paper is preferable tonew. Rembrandt and all the great etchers have foundit so. Whistler spent endless time searching for he and
Whistler as I knew him . - L_ IRVING AS PHILIP OF SPAIN With dry point added, undescribed in THE ETCHER 93 the ink which cannot be imitated. It is of a texturewhich only age can produce. The texture of paperchanges considerably with age. As years go on alltraces of size disappear; yet you feel that at onetime it must have contained a considerable has been proved over and over again by practicalexperiment that for etchings old paper is preferable tonew. Rembrandt and all the great etchers have foundit so. Whistler spent endless time searching for he and I passed weeks in Holland poking aboutantiquated book shops; sometimes finding a large col-lection, sometimes only a single sheet. On occasions,after having discovered a stack of three or four thou-sand sheets, I have seen Whistler literally tremblewith excitement and scarcely know how to ask theprice for joy. Then, when the Master had made apurchase, he and I would stagger to the hotel underthe weight of a huge parcel, rather than run theslightest risk of losing it. Whistler perfectly under-stood the value
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