The phrase "an etching of three" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing a specific artwork that depicts three subjects or elements.
Example: "The gallery featured an etching of three majestic horses galloping across the plains."
Alternatives: "a print of three" or "an engraving of three".
The installation includes a broken-down carousel horse, a neo-Classical bust of a young man, a David Hockney etching of two young men in bed and a beautiful mobile of glass orbs by the artist Julia Condon.
An ECE cell for the simultaneous etching of three irradiated samples has been designed and developed.
From etching of three indented surfaces, the preferred slip planes have been identified as (001) and (101).
Hassam's print is an extraordinarily detailed etching of two monumental trees, produced by the artist late in life.
On Ariane's living room wall hangs an etching of King Solomon settling a quarrel between two women arguing over a baby.
Or an etching of a ham sandwich.
Discussing David Hockney's 1966 etching of two men lying in bed side by side, Mr. MacGregor notes, "It raises perplexing questions about what societies find acceptable or unacceptable, about the limits of tolerance and individual freedom, and about shifting moral structures over thousands of years of human history".
On the other hand, the Modern show includes only three of the largest, most elaborately worked etchings from the 1968 "Suite 347" — so named because that's how many prints Picasso made in an etching marathon of just under seven months.
The authors believe that the difference by a factor of three in the etching rate between SAM and PE films in ammonia plasma is the consequence of their quasi-crystalline arrangement, compared to the amorphous PE films.
A room at the Neue Galerie is a catacomb of grotesquerie, presenting watercolors of a man with nearly half his face gouged out and of operating-room debris (discarded organs, including a brain) and a series of fifty etchings, "The War" (published in 1924), which is like nothing else in art since Goya's "Disasters of War".
