Paris: Cadart Et Luquet, Éditeurs Gérants De La Société Des Aqua-Fortistes 79, Rue Richelieu, 79, M DCCC LXVI
Physical Description
[4], viii, 106 p., 8 pl.; 235 mm. (Octavo.)
Contents
[Half-t., t.p.] - [Letter to Lalanne from Charles Blanc] - Introduction - [Text, with pl.] - Ouvrages A Consulter ... - Principaux Peintre-Graveurs ... - Œuvres Les Plus Remarquables Des Aqua-Fortistes Contemporains - Table; [colophon].
Responsibility Note
Plates 3, 4, 6-8 are signed 'M.L.'.
Each plate carries the intaglio-printer's imprint, 'Delatre, Paris'.
The text printer is named in the colophon and on the half-title verso: 'Paris. - Imprimerie De J. Claye, Rue Saint-Benoit, 7.'
References
B.L. Grad and T.A. Riggs, Visions of city and country: prints and photographs of nineteenth-century France [exhibition catalogue] (1982), p.129-32; J. Bailly-Herzberg, L'eau-forte de peintre au dix-neuvième siècle: la Société des Aquafortistes, 1862-1867 (2 vols., 1972).
Summary Note
This book and Lalanne's later manual, Le fusain (1869), contributed greatly to the revival of etching in France. Lalanne was a founder-member of the Société des Aquafortistes (1862). His later plates included views of Paris slums.
Binding Note
19th-century half red morocco, marbled-papered boards; spine lettered 'Traité De La Gravure - Lalanne Paris. 1866' and 'R.A.'
Subject
Etching - Engraving - Techniques
Treatises - Textbooks - Manuals - France - 19th century
Pictorial works - France - 19th century