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He did not leave his friends entirely and Joseph Wright visited him in 1774 in south
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Franklin wrote to Perez Burdett on 21 August 1773 "I should be glad to be inform’d where I can see some example of the new Art you mention of printing in Imitation of Paintings. It must be a most valuable Discovery: but more likely to meet with adequate Encouragement on this side the water
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The artist Paul Sandby learnt the basic techniques of aquatint from the Hon. Charles
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British aquatint artist is thought to be Perez Burdett, who exhibited these first aquatints in 1772. Burdett brushed acid direct on to an aquatint ground, only using varnish to stop-off large areas of a single tone. His technique appears to have been novel and was different from early
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