Pick of the week
Mar 17, 2021
1 minute
In common many lovers of etchings, I find liking may turn to distaste when they are colour-printed. This was.' Blaker's own rather 19th-century black-and-white work would not sell and his dealers implored him to colour, but he would not, until his wife suggested a compromise: to tint the prints with delicate colour washes as early aquatinters did-and sales flooded in.
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