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Etching - a reclaimed plate

Description of the work
For this exercise, a reclaimed zinc plate is burnished and added to, to create a new image. The plate has undergone the hard ground technique in the drawing of the buildings and an open bite in nitric acid to create the clouds.
The process 
​​​​​​Burnishing away the existing image 
Test print 
Plate illustrating open bite and hard ground technique 
Inked up plate
Final print and plate 
Etching - a reclaimed plate
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