IMfBOyEMKNT IN TttE.,4QiJA'I\I^TA .PROCESS. ggj 



pencilling on the cop^^jer is visible iit the smallest touch :— rit 

 has also another perfection, that, by using a broader instru- Blsck chalk 

 roent it will represent black-chalk, a specimen of which i^'""*'^ • 

 procured Mr. Munn, the landscape painter, to make a trial 

 of. I have herewith sent the said specimen marked C, and 

 Mr. Munn's name is affixed to the same. This subject he 

 actually drew upon copper, under ray inspection, in less 

 than twenty minutes, the time he would have taken, per- 

 haps, to do the same on paper; in fact, it can be as rapidly 

 executed on copper as on paper. 



It is particularly pleasant for colouring up, to imitate Particularly 

 drawings, as the lines are soft, and blend in with the colour, a^apt^^fo^co. 

 * . • 1 , • • , 1 ■ 1 louring: 



It IS a circumstance always objectionable in the common 



method of etching", that those so tinted can never be suffi- 

 ciently drowned, nor destroyed, and always present a wiry 

 hard effect. 



It is equally adapted to historical sketching, and might and to pre- 

 be the means of inducing many of our eminent painters to ^^^?u^^ t 

 hand down to posterity their sketches, which, at present, painters. 

 they decline, from the irksome trouble attending the repeti- 

 tion of retracing their performances, and the doubtful hand- 

 ling of the etching-needle, which can never give a sufficient 

 breadth and scope to their abilities. 



i have, sir, forwarded, in an annexed paper, the different 

 specimens, for the inspection of the gentlemen forming the 

 Society of Arts, &c. 



In making my specimens I have thought it necessary to Anjrp?irtcap». 

 »how, that, if by any accident a part might fail, it could be ^^f °^^^?^ 

 retouched a second time, and oftener if wanted; in this par- 

 ticular its simplicity stamps its u^e. 



To elucidate the foregoing proposition, I purposely caused 

 a part of the distance to fail in specimen A A ; this is repair- 

 ed you will perceive in specimen B> and the sharp touches 

 wanted to peffect the sketch are added. 



I beg also to state, it is not the style usually termed soft Not soft 

 ground etching : that process is always uncertain, cannot be g'^^und etch*. 

 repaired, and will only print about two hundred impres- 

 sions; whereas the specimens herewith sent will print up* 

 ivards of five hundred, with care. 



Should the Society for the Encouragement of Arts &c. 



deetu 



