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Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION
- PART I DRAWING, TRANSFERRING AND PRINTING
- CHAPTER I Introductory
- CHAPTER II Mechanical and Chemical Principles of some of the Lithographic Materials used in Printing
- CHAPTER III Instruments, Tools, and Appliances used in Drawing and Writing
- CHAPTER IV Instruments, Tools, and Apparatus used in Printing
- CHAPTER V Accessories to the Lithographic Printing-press
- CHAPTER VI Grinding and Polishing Stones
- CHAPTER VII Lithography on Paper or Transfer Lithography
- CHAPTER VIII Ink Writing and Drawing on Stone
- CHAPTER IX Chalk Drawing on Stone
- CHAPTER X Etching Chalk Drawings on Stone
- CHAPTER XI Taking Impressions for Transferring
- CHAPTER XII Transferring
- CHAPTER XIII Proving and Printing
- CHAPTER XIV Printing (continued)
- CHAPTER XV Printing (continued)
- CHAPTER XVI Miscellaneous Processe
- CHAPTER XVII Miscellaneous Processes (continued)
- CHAPTER XVIII Engraving on Stone
- CHAPTER XIX Zincography
- CHAPTER XX Chromo-lithography
- CHAPTER XXI Chromo-lithography (continued)
- CHAPTER XXII Chromo-lithography (continued)
- CHAPTER XXIII Chromo-lithography (continued)
- CHAPTER XXIV Photo-lithography
- APPENDIX.—Recipes
- PART II LITHOGRAPHIC MACHINE-PRINTING
- BIBLIOGRAPHY OF LITHOGRAPHY
- INDEX
CHAPTER X - Etching Chalk Drawings on Stone
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 July 2011
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION
- PART I DRAWING, TRANSFERRING AND PRINTING
- CHAPTER I Introductory
- CHAPTER II Mechanical and Chemical Principles of some of the Lithographic Materials used in Printing
- CHAPTER III Instruments, Tools, and Appliances used in Drawing and Writing
- CHAPTER IV Instruments, Tools, and Apparatus used in Printing
- CHAPTER V Accessories to the Lithographic Printing-press
- CHAPTER VI Grinding and Polishing Stones
- CHAPTER VII Lithography on Paper or Transfer Lithography
- CHAPTER VIII Ink Writing and Drawing on Stone
- CHAPTER IX Chalk Drawing on Stone
- CHAPTER X Etching Chalk Drawings on Stone
- CHAPTER XI Taking Impressions for Transferring
- CHAPTER XII Transferring
- CHAPTER XIII Proving and Printing
- CHAPTER XIV Printing (continued)
- CHAPTER XV Printing (continued)
- CHAPTER XVI Miscellaneous Processe
- CHAPTER XVII Miscellaneous Processes (continued)
- CHAPTER XVIII Engraving on Stone
- CHAPTER XIX Zincography
- CHAPTER XX Chromo-lithography
- CHAPTER XXI Chromo-lithography (continued)
- CHAPTER XXII Chromo-lithography (continued)
- CHAPTER XXIII Chromo-lithography (continued)
- CHAPTER XXIV Photo-lithography
- APPENDIX.—Recipes
- PART II LITHOGRAPHIC MACHINE-PRINTING
- BIBLIOGRAPHY OF LITHOGRAPHY
- INDEX
Summary
Last chapter completed the subject of chalk drawing, as far as putting the subject on the stone is concerned; but there is an intermediate process to be gone through before it is ready to be printed from, which is very important, as affecting, in a very marked degree, the good quality of the impressions. Our present chapter is therefore devoted to this operation, which is called—
91. Etching The Drawing.—This operation is usually performed by the foreman-printer ; but as it does not essentially belong to printing, and might with advantage be done by the artist, it will be described in this place.
The term “etching,” in lithography, is no doubt borrowed from the practice of etching on copper, but it is somewhat improperly applied. The etching process on copper consists in producing an effect by drawing with a point through a wax surface spread upon a metal plate, and afterwards fixing or deepening such work by “biting in” with dilute nitric acid. In Lithography the term “etching” is applied only to the acidulation of the stone by dilute nitric or other acid, the effect of which is rather to make the work lighter than stronger, and is thus diametrically opposed to similar operations on metal.
When nitric and most other acids are brought into contact with the carbonate of lime, of which the lithographic stone principally consists, decomposition ensues; the nitric acid seizes upon the lime, and sets the carbonic acid free, which then passes off rapidly in minute bubbles, producing the phenomenon known as effervescence.
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- The Grammar of LithographyA Practical Guide for the Artist and Printer in Commercial and Artistic Lithography, and Chromolithography, Zincography, Photo-lithography, and Lithographic Machine Printing, pp. 69 - 74Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1878