Excerpt from The Relative Claims of Etching and Engraving to Rank as Fine Arts, and to Be Represented as Such in the Royal Academy of Arts<br><br>It will thus be seen, that the object of the paper is not to contrast etching as a process, with engraving as a process, the etched line with the engraved line, - and to say of one that it is better as a form of art expression than the other, though this thesis might well be maintained; and certainly not, in any sense that can be considered in the least personal, to exalt one class of artist at the expense of another; but to compare, without regard to the process employed or the person employing it, the practice of the painter-etcher who is an original artist, with the practice of the modern engraver who is not an original artist, and, by the discussion which it is hoped will follow such comparison, to arrive at an intelligible conclusion as to the comparative claims of the two to be considered branches of fine art.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.