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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;moreotherstuff, post: 1237486, member: 56&quot;]There are as many variations and permutations in printmaking as there are printmakers... probably more.</p><p><br /></p><p>I imagine that someone who is emotionally invested in his/her subject can&#039;t help but bring that to his/her work.</p><p><br /></p><p>I confess to being an amateur.&nbsp; I like intaglio prints and obviously have an interest in the techniques used to produce them.&nbsp; A true expert in the field can look at a print and recognize the hand of the artist.&nbsp; Beyond the stylistic nature of an image, I cannot. </p><p><br /></p><p>I was looking up an engraver named John Saddler (1813-1892) and came across this passage:</p><p><br /></p><p><i>He was a pupil of George Cooke (1781–1834) [q. v.], the engraver of Turner&#039;s ‘Picturesque Views on the Southern Coast of England,’ and it is related that on one occasion he was sent to Turner with the trial proof of a plate of which he had himself engraved a considerable portion. Scanning the plate with his eagle eye, Turner asked ‘Who did this plate, my boy?’ ‘Mr. Cooke, sir,’ answered Saddler, to which Turner replied, ‘Go and tell your master he is bringing you on very nicely, especially in lying.’ Later on he engraved the vessels in the plate of Turner&#039;s ‘Fighting Téméraire,’ the sky of which was the joint production of R. Dickens and J. T. Willmore, A.R.A.</i>...</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Saddler,_John_(DNB00)" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Saddler,_John_(DNB00)" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Saddler,_John_(DNB00)</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Turner could tell.&nbsp; Not me.</p><p><br /></p><p>The &quot;Fighting Téméraire&quot; is not a particularly rare print.&nbsp; The engraving credit is given to JT Willmore (James Tibbets&nbsp; 1800-1863), but three different engravers worked on the plate.&nbsp; I found that out by accident.&nbsp; I wouldn&#039;t have seen it in the print.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]215562[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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