etching ground

American  

noun

1. ground.

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Etymology

Origin of etching ground

First recorded in 1780–90

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Example Sentences

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etching ground

The black-lead from the scratches adheres to the etching ground and shows upon it as pale grey, much more visible than anything else you can use for tracing.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 7 "Equation" to "Ethics" by Various

This was carried to the printer, who, having placed it between damp paper and passed it through the press, returned it, the black-lead outline distinctly appearing on the etching ground.

From Old Coloured Books by George Paston

Rembrandt's etching ground has been the subject of considerable discussion.

From Rembrandt's Etching Technique: An Example by Peter Morse

The outlines are cut through the etching ground and bitten into the steel with acid.

From What Philately Teaches A Lecture Delivered before the Section on Philately of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, February 24, 1899 by John N. Luff

Next he immerses the copper plate in an acid bath which "bites," or grooves, the metal along the lines he has drawn without affecting the parts protected by the etching ground.

From Rembrandt A Collection Of Fifteen Pictures and a Portrait of the Painter with Introduction and Interpretation by Estelle M. (Estelle May) Hurll

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