Some Rembrandts

Usage examples of etchings.

There are no signs of any lifts or other means of descending to the lower levels, so we’re assuming, based on old etchings and other artwork that depict people inside these buildings, that they used small antigravitational devices attached to belts to move up and down.

On a number of Sickert's paintings, etchings, and sketches, he abbreviates Sickert as St.

When he invited ladies to see his etchings, he meant literally as well as figuratively.

Most of their sites remind me of certain ancient Egyptian monuments on Earth—they’re all filled with statues and etchings I can only describe as monuments to glory, to a people who accepted their power and delighted in it.

He had uncovered their metallic walls of etchings and their monumental statuary and had imagined himself among them, walking the wide and open streets of one of their cities, resting in one of their vast rooms or indoor courtyards, watching the competitive displays of physical strength in one of their huge arenas.

She recalled how some of the children had looked just before beaming up—wide-eyed, trying to be brave but clearly frightened, the older ones certain that they would never see their homes and families again, each of them clutching one of the ancient etchings, small sculptures, or archaic artifacts Samas Rychi had given to them.

He brushed a finger along the back of the cross, fingering the etchings he had carefully carved into the soft gold.

He sold on an average of fifty photographs a day for the Musée Goupil and Company, and although he would have preferred to deal in oil canvases and etchings, he was pleased to be taking in so much money for the house.

After your summer vacation I want you to leave the back room and come forward into the etchings and lithographs.

He thought of all the lovely prints he had possessed at one time or another, the lithographs and etchings he had sent to Theo and his parents.

The clerks who were chatting softly behind a table of etchings took one look at his clothes and posture and did not even bother to ask if there was something he wished.

His acting career, paintings, etchings, drawings, and prolific letters to colleagues, friends, and newspapers reveal many personas: Mr.

On a number of Sickert's paintings, etchings, and sketches, he abbre­viates Sickert as St.

The female body parts Sickert depicted in his music-hall sketches were rarely if ever used in any of his studies, pastels, etchings, or paintings.

When Sickert began his infamous paintings and etchings of nude women sprawled on iron bedsteads - the Camden Town Murder and L'affair de Camden Town, or Jack Ashore or the clothed man in Despair who sits on a bed, his face in his hands - he was simply viewed as a re­spected artist who had chosen the Camden Town murder as a narrative theme in his work.