For Esther Gordon Dotson
And Your Lordship well knows that just as paper has no less stability than bronze and marble, so too there is no ultramarine color as vividly expressive as ink.(1)
I shall begin with the art of engraving in copper, not as the oldest, but as the one of greater use, and doubtless of a usefulness more serviceable to people for increasing their knowledge.(2)
The obsolete Italian word chinea, derived from the Old French haquenee (in English "hackney"), means ...