13 Facts About Etching revival

Etching revival was the re-emergence and invigoration of etching as an original form of printmaking during the period approximately from 1850 to 1930.

Etching revival was the dominant technique, but many plates combined this with drypoint in particular; the basic action of creating the lines on the plate for these was essentially the same as in drawing, and fairly easy for a trained artist to pick up.

The Etching revival Club, founded in 1838, continued to maintain the medium.

Hamerton and others, the father of the British Etching Revival was Francis Seymour Haden, the surgeon etcher, who, with his brother-in-law, the American, James McNeill Whistler, produced a body of work starting around 1860 that still stands as one of the highpoints of etching history.

One distinct aspect of the Etching revival, in contrast with the Old Master period, was an interest in giving unique qualities to each impression of a print.

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The New York Etching revival Club was the main professional etching organization.

Haden's About Etching revival was an important early work, promoting a particular view of etching, especially applicable to landscapes, as effectively an extension of drawing, with its possibilities for spontaneity and revealing the creative processes of the artist in a way that became lost in a highly finished and reworked oil painting.

Etching revival advocated a style of "learned omission", according to which the fewer lines there were on a plate, "the greater would be the thought and creativity residing in each line".

Etching revival had trained as a painter, but become a professional art critic and amateur etcher.

Etching revival's ideas had much in common with those of Haden, favouring a spare style where what was omitted was as important as what was included, an important theme of Haden.

Etching revival relied on a well-developed art trade, with galleries, dealers, clubs, and at the top end auction houses.

Etching revival began collecting and writing about Muirhead Bone's prints when Bone first exhibited in London in 1902, paying one or two guineas at Bone's dealer.

Etching revival continued to buy Bones up to the 1940s, by which time the prices were back to 1902 levels.