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GRAPHIC
ALCHEMY
 It is always interesting when searching through recent
acquisitions for my Winter catalogue to find incidental
correspondences becoming apparent and it is these that
usually suggest a title.
This
winter’s offerings include the splendid portrait
of Frank Short by Malcolm Osborne, showing him in his
etching studio, with all the paraphernalia of intaglio
printmaking, as well as a fascinating and very rare image
of a late 19th century French lithographic studio. There
is also an unusual French Romantic lithograph of a tiger
and lion, which was made in imitation of a mezzotint
as a demonstration of the versatility of lithography.
And included too is a nice group of seven wood engravings
by Monica Poole, as well as woodcuts drawn directly on
the wood block by Dürer and Manet.
 All
the above examples, achieved through a variety of different
printmaking processes, made me consider their respective
individual matrixes of copper, stone or wood, and the
ensuing chemical reaction should the process require
acid, as well as pondering the essential nature of
printmaking itself, whereby the artist working in reverse
on whichever mineral matrix, through transfer of the
image by printing, creates a work of art on paper.
A
work of art of greater worth than the intrinsic value
of the engendering copper, stone or wood; the equivalent
of ‘gold’ transmuted from ‘base’ metals.
However,
this catalogue also shows a bias towards modern British
etchings and drypoints, particularly of architectural
subjects…
Published Winter 2010
52 pages, 131 items, with 142 illustrations, 10 being in colour.
(UK
Price: £7, International orders: £10)
Prints
still available
A selection
of prints still available from Graphic Alchemy can
be seen shortly in the Selections section
of the website.
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Artists
included in the catalogue:
- Anderson
S
- Austen
W
- Banks
H
- Barendsz
D
- Bawden
R
- Blampied
E
- Bol
H
- Boulanger
H
- Brangwyn
F
- Butcher
E
- Cameron
D Y
- Canaletto
- Carter
P Y
- Cock
H
- Collaert
H
- Cort
C
- Cotman
J S
- Daikoko-ya
- Darbyshire
B D
- Dodd
F
- Dürer
A
- Evans
H P
- Fauchon
H
- Fitton
H
- Floris
F
- Fürstová M
- German
School
- Goff
R
- Guérard
H
- Haden
F A
- Hamson
T D
- Hollar
W
- Hondius
H
- Hughes
E
- Ilsted
P
- John
E
- Klein
A
- Kemp-Welch
M
- Kolbe
C W
- Laboureur
J E
- Lalanne
M
- Lee
S
- Legros
A
- Litten
S M
- Livett
U
- Manet
E
- McBey
J
- Menpes
M
- Middlehurst
F
- Morris
M
- Nixon
J
- Oppler
E
- Osborne
M
- Osgood
H
- Parker
A M
- Parrish
S
- Piper
E
- Piranesi
G B
- Poole
M
- Ranft
R
- Robert
H
- Robertson
D
- Rosenberg
L
- Rushbury
H
- Sadeler
J
- Schmutzer
F
- Short
F
- Smart
D
- Squirrel
K
- Steel
K
- Strang
I
- Taylor
E W
- Tunnicliffe
C F
- Ury
L
- Vivant-Denon
D
- Vos
M de
- Walcot
W
- Washington
W
- White
E
- Wyllie
W L
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