Sugar lift

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Etching with sugar-lift aquatint
MFA# 1999.713

Description

A variation of Aquatint. Sugar-lift etching was invented by Paul Sandby in 1776 (Nadeau 1997).

Synonyms and Related Terms

sugar-life; sugar lift etching; lift-ground etching; sugar aquatint

Resources and Citations

  • Luis Nadeau, Encyclopedia of Printing, Photographic, and Photomechanical Processes, Atelier, New Brunswick, 1997