| 单词 | foul biting |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfoul biting foul biting n. Etching the collapse of the ground, allowing the acid to attack the plate in an indiscriminate and uncontrolled manner, causing dots or irregular areas to appear on prints.The collapse can result from imperfections in the ground, the plate being left in the acid bath too long, or lines being etched too close together. ΚΠ 1806 G. Gregory Dict. Arts & Sci. I. 655/3 Otherwise you will have parts bitten that were not intended, which is called foul-biting. 1929 Bull. Art Inst. Chicago 23 57/1 The latter is spotty, spoiled by foul biting, but fortunately the head is not marred. 2012 Master Drawings 50 540/2 The artist employed controlled open biting to achieve tonality, formerly misunderstood as foul biting. < as lemmas |
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