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The light silvery tone was the result of an accident that occured during the biting of the plate. Usually Freud's plates were left for 45 minutes in the acid bath, but in this case Dewis had to remove it after only 15 minutes as the hard ground was lifting from the surface of the plate. As a result the etched lines were very shallow and could not hold the normal printing ink properly. Balakjian solved the problem by mixing an ink that would stay in the grooves. He also made a series of trial proofs on a variety of papers (E.386-391-2020). Dewis recalled that the wavy white lines in the sitter's curly hair were achieved by brushing on stopping out varnish. 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