Since the world began there have only been two supreme etchers — Rembrandt and Whistler,” Joseph Pennell writes in his 1919 book Etchers and Etching. Pennell, an etcher and a friend and biographer of ...

Etchings on Paper, 19th Century, comprising: "Milking Time" After Paul Potter (Dutch, baptized, 1625-1654), engraved by John Godfrey (British, 1817-1889), and "St. Bees Head" After William Henry ...

Henri Guérard, “An African Woman, after Eva Gonzalès” (ca. 1888), etching and aquatint on gray paper, Image/plate: 37.5 x 29.2 cm (14 3/4 x 11 1/2 inches), Esther Mauran Acquisitions Fund 2016.107, ...

A rare 19th-century condom decorated with an erotic etching featuring a nun and three clergymen is going on display at a museum in the Netherlands. Believed to be made from a sheep’s appendix, the ...

Abjection, violence, obsession, solitude, death -- the buoyant Impressionist era in Europe, marked by rollicking cafe and boulevard life and gay outings into the sun-dappled countryside, is usually ...