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Updated: June 6, 2025
Among the products of the etcher's needle which attest his activity in this direction are those masterpieces which have for centuries been at once the delight and the puzzle of artistic minds: the "Melancholia," "The Knight and the Devil," and "St. Jerome in his Cell."
The picture of the mattress, now nearly hidden in the shadows the picture of the other furniture in the room two chairs or rather one and a part of a chair, for the rails of the hack were gone a table, a large brown jug, the handle of which had been replaced by a piece of string, and a white washhand-basin, with most of the rim broken away, and a shallow tub apparently used for a bath seemed to sink into my flesh as though bitten in by the etcher's aquafortis.
You'll only be in the way. 'You'll be ready for me in an hour? he said, rising reluctantly. 'Well, it don't look, does it, as if there was much to pack in this hole! she said with one of her wild laughs. He looked round for the first time and saw a long bare studio, containing a table covered with etcher's apparatus and some blocks for wood engraving.
Hamerton had prepared the "Etcher's Handbook" and its illustrations, and was writing a series of articles on the "Characters of Balzac" for the "Saturday Review." To save time I read to him "Le Pere Goriot," "Eugenie Grandet," "Ursule Mirouet," "Les Parents Pauvres," "La Cousine Bette," etc. Mr.
Revisiting the Hôtel de la Cloche at Dijon in later years, Ruskin showed me the room where he had "bitten" the last plate in his wash-hand basin, as a careless makeshift for the regular etcher's bath. He was not dissatisfied with his work himself; the public of the day wanted something more finished. So the second edition appeared with the subjects elaborately popularized in fashionable engraving.
And even on this side of his genius he has never been excelled, the Japanese alone being his equals in daring of invention, while he tops them in the expression of broad humour. In the Luxembourg galleries there is a picture of an interesting man, in an etcher's atelier.
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