remarquen.
/rᵻˈmɑːk/, U.S. /rəˈmɑrk/, /riˈmɑrk/ Chiefly Engraving.
A distinguishing feature indicating a certain state of a plate, characteristically a slight sketch inserted in the margin. In later use also: a marginal sketch or enhancement to a print, esp. as a design element.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > printmaking > engraving > [noun] > proof or state > distinguishing mark or marginal sketch
remarque1852
remark1859
1852 Times 23 Dec. 1/3 (advt.) Proofs, with remarque, £10 10s.
1882 Artist 1 Feb. 58/2 A remarque on a plate is an evidence of the artist's caprice.
1890 F. G. Kitton Charles Dickens by Pen & Pencil I. iv. facing p. 49 Charles Dickens, his wife and her sister—1843... Remarque: Miss Mary Hogarth.
1925 C. Morley Thunder on Left vii. 80 If they're girls, how mothers hurry to drill and denature those bright dreaming wits. They love them chiefly because they make so pretty a vignette in the margin of their own self-portrait—like a remarque in an engraving.
1942 Philadelphia Mus. Bull. 37 10 (caption) Bords de la Seine, color lithograph by Paul Signac, first state with the remarque, proof signed in pencil.
2006 Chesapeake Life Feb. 85/1 These days, busy with the remarques he's adding to Jack's prints, Lem says he draws in his sleep.
Compounds
remarque proof n. [compare French épreuve avec la remarque (1806 or earlier), épreuve de remarque (1834 or earlier)]
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1879 Catal. Paintings, Engravings, Sculpt. & Househ. Art in Seventh Cincinnati Industr. Arts Expos. 81 Madonna and Child, with Catherine and John the Baptist…Beautiful remarque proof.
1891 A. Hope Amateur Photographer's Hand Bk. (ed. 3) xix. 126 In engravings and etchings we have ‘proofs before letters’, ‘artists' proofs’, and ‘remarque proofs’.
1923 E. W. Martindell Bibliogr. Wks. R. Kipling (new ed.) v. 196 Engraving on India Paper (Remarque Proof), by R. Caton Woodville, 1900.
2002 W. Baker W. Collins's Libr. 170 The Peaceful Thames, after F. Walker, A. R. A. by C. Waltner - remarque proof.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
remarquev.
/rᵻˈmɑːk/, U.S. /rəˈmɑrk/, /riˈmɑrk/ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > printmaking > engraving > engrave [verb (transitive)] > insert as a remarque
remarque1884
1884 Pall Mall Gaz. 12 Mar. 3/1 Lane's portrait of Dickens and George Cattermole's large portrait so largely ‘remarqued’ beneath.
2. transitive. Originally Engraving. To add a remarque to.
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1916 G. H. Viner Descriptive Catal. Bookplates of George W. Eve 46 Some proofs are remarqued with a couple of terriers watching a rabbit hole.
1985 Cincinnati Mag. Feb. 23/1 The reproductions of the ‘Queen’ painting are limited to 750, of which fifty are remarqued.
1998 St. Louis (Missouri) Post-Dispatch (Nexis) 23 Aug. (Travel & Leisure section) t9 The $1,199 ‘President's Edition’, limited to an issuance of 450, includes a signed print that has been remarqued with a handmade color illustration by the artist.
2008 Mobile (Alabama) Reg. (Nexis) 28 Sept. l4 Each of the canvases will be ‘remarqued’, which means Peters will paint original elements on each canvas print to make it an original.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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