1880 23 Dec. 7/5 Society of Painter Etchers.—.. The society..has been formed to ‘promote original etching and the interest of painters practising that branch of art’.
1920 E. H. Hubbard 128 The work of ‘painter-etchers’ (men who execute original subjects direct on the plate).
1988 94 79 Before their style of working went out of fashion in the 1930s, all the artists studied had been recognized as painter-etchers.