button to main menu  Eleventh Exhibition, p.20
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might be of great advantage to me; I read the specification, and to my surprise, found it to be the precise line I had made use of nearly twenty years ago. My theoretic knowledge of the aquatint was obtained from the ingenious Mr. Craig, in Manchester, I even saw him produce the aquatinta line, but thus was the dry ground line, and I believe the invention of the late Paul Sandby, Esquire; and though there is a considerable difference in the processes producing the dry and the liquid ground lines, yet having first known the dry line, I claim no merit in its production by the liquid ground, though the line produced from the liquid ground is more beautiful and much more durable than that from the dry ground.
I had always considered the aquatinta line as an excellent and expeditious mode of repairing failures in the soft ground line, and in the Shakespear tree at Rydal, given in the large work No.19, it answered that purpose well, saving much time by its dispensing on those places with the use of the graver; the parts repaired by the aquatinta are those about the bottom of the tree, and some
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