http://blog.chasenantiques.com/2009/07/29/how-can-you-tell-an-etching-is-authentic/
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An original copper plate etching is a monoprint, which means that there is only one. However, you can print another original of that copper plate, which becomes yet another monoprint. Each of those prints are originals and each of them are separate and unique.
Original: Actual, Proof: Hand held Evidence, Print, Evidence of condition of the state of a matrix. Etching: a means of altering a matrix
Drawing with crayons is not etching. You do not dig into anything with crayons. To create a crayon etching, you would need to use the crayon to indent something.
Have it examined by a gunsmith familiar with A-5
The original is not an etching but an ink drawing. It is owned by the Louvre museum in Paris.
It is an etching, meaning a number of the work were printed from a copper plate.
I have been told that they can be worth from $500-$1000.
We don't know what you want to know. Original players of something. You don't tell us what.
Depending on condition, black & white original 1920's $75.00, color $150 - 350.
color etching is fraternally etching
Lionel Barrymore is an Oscar winning actor and director. He is also a visual artist. His etching, "Quiet Waters" as an original may be valued at 200 dollars.
It sounds like you have an original etching by a French artist named Jean Robert. The title "Matinee en Marou" suggests that it might depict a morning scene at the beach. Etchings are created through a printmaking technique, and the pencil signature adds to its authenticity.