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"SIR FRANCIS JOB SHORT (1857-), English engraver ( see 24.1007), was elected R.A. in 1911, and in the same year was knighted. In 1910 he became president of the Royal Society of Painters, Etchers and Engravers. His later work exemplifies every type of his activity. Among etchings, " On the Banks of the Bure " and " The White Mill, Canterbury " show his adherence to the use of line in that medium, and a version of Turner's "Ehrenbreitstein to Coblentz " continues his series of translations of paintings. He also added " Moonlight on the Medway at Chatham" and " Dumbarton Rock " to the plates in etching and mezzotint completing Turner's " Liber Studiorum." Two aquatints, " The New Moon " (1918) and "'Twixt Dawn and Day, " show broad handling and remarkably rich quality in the darks; and two mezzotints, " Orion over the Thames " (1913-4) and " The Night Picket Boat at Hammersmith " (1914-5), are among his finest plates in a medium peculiarly his own.