After many difficulties, occasioned by the inexperience of a young director in putting through reforms, and a near-fatal accident in which he permanently impaired his voice when he swallowed some engraving acid, Weber was forced to resign.
Velázquez, who consulted eyewitness accounts and some reportorial engravings by the French artist Jacques Callot, observes that ironic contrast.
Arguably the most important work of her career, it included some 60 engravings illustrating the different stages of development that she had observed in Suriname's insects.
Camden Arts Centre, NW3, to 29 Mar SS Here's an ornithological treat: some 70 engravings and hand-coloured lithographs from the collection of 19th-century naturalist Thomas Eyton.
It is a trove of archaeological treasures that is on Unesco's World Heritage list; its 8,000 square miles include hundreds of plant and bird species and more than 5,000 rock-art sites, most of them consisting of paintings but some with engravings or designs in wax.
In addition to the masters, talented engravers included Cristofano Robetta, a Florentine who made some rich, intricate engravings in the fine manner; and the Venetian Jacopo de' Barbari, who travelled in Germany and whose refined engravings show the influence of Albrecht Dürer.
When David Walliams and Lara Stone came in looking for wedding rings, she knew he wanted something more than a band, but he didn't know what he wanted until I showed him some gun-engravings".
All are meticulous copperplate engravings — some with aquatint, with added hand color, others printed in sepia.
