Introduction: Processes and materials -- The earliest engravings (the fifteenth century) -- The great masters of engravings: their contemporaries and immediate followers (about 1495-1550) -- The beginnings of etching and its progress during the sixteenth century -- The decline of original engraving: the print-sellers; the great reproductive engravers of the School of Rubens; the first century of engraving in England (about 1540-1650) -- The great portrait engravers (about 1600-1750) -- The masters of etching: Van Dyck and Rembrandt; their immediate predecessors, and their following in the seventeenth century (about 1590-1700) -- The later development and decay of line-engraving (from about 1650) -- Etching in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries: the great Italian etchers; the archaisers and amateurs; the satirists; Goya -- The tone processes: mezzotint, the crayon manner and stipple, aquatint, colour-prints -- Modern etching -- Appendix I: Classified list of engravers -- Appendix II: General bibliography.
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