Word: lampblack
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mother asked him to make a list of some laundry she was about to send out. Almost without thinking, Senefelder wrote the list on a flat piece of limestone that had come from the quarries of Solnhofen. He used an etching crayon of wax. soap and lampblack-and got the idea that he might cover the stone with acid that would eat away the part of the surface not protected by the crayon. It worked, but in the traditional way of relief printing. At length, it occurred to Senefelder that he could get a transferable design on his stone without...
...moments. Aside from painting, his greatest ambition was to found a home for "decayed English artists (Landscape Painters only) and single men." And at one exhibition when the high colors of one of his paintings overshadowed those in two nearby Lawrence portraits, Turner tactfully smudged his own canvas with lampblack-which he washed off after the show...