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  | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Brunelleschi |-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Ghiberti |-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Donatello |-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Luca


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id: 20195
author: Fletcher, F. Morley (Frank Morley)
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  The following account of colour-printing from wood-blocks is based on a The actual value of wood-block prints for use as decoration is a matter To see a few impressions taken from a set of blocks in colour printing, It is usual to print the line or key-block of a design first, as one is The complete design of a print may require several blocks for colour as block that must be cut first is that which prints the line or "key" of other blocks for printing the coloured portions of the design are cut. development of drawing in designs for wood-block prints. key-block of a Japanese print showing admirable variety in the means printing surface of a colour block would be as follows: Preparation of Paper, Ink, Colour, and Paste for Printing impression from colour-blocks as the long-fibred Japanese paper, yet it One by one each colour-block is printed in this way until the batch of

title:
  Wood-Block Printing A Description of the Craft of Woodcutting and Colour Printing Based on the Japanese Practice


id: 29928
title: Why Bewick Succeeded: A Note in the History of Wood Engraving
author: Kainen, Jacob
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  A little engraving on wood was also done, but Bewick tells us that his the art of engraving and cutting on wood was just beginning to show "white line" that gave wood engraving its special quality. black ink and white paper, it mattered little whether the engraved lines [Illustration: Figure 3.--Late 15th-Century White-Line Engraving "The Actually, white-line engraving for relief printing dates from the 15th white-line metal relief prints, inked on the surface like woodcuts. Koehler, "White-line engraving for relief-printing in [Illustration: Figure 4.--White-Line Engraving on Metal for Relief Relief engraving on type metal and end-grain wood really got under way _French_ engravers on Wood all working in the old Manner; no Metal [Illustration: Figure 7.--Wood Engraving by Thomas Bewick, "The Man and Bewick''s early work was printed on laid paper. Bewick was still using wood engraving as The wood-engraving of Thomas Bewick, produced [Illustration: Figure 12.--Wood Engraving by W.


id: 27268
title: Ariadne Florentina: Six Lectures on Wood and Metal Engraving
author: Ruskin, John
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  DESIGN IN THE GERMAN SCHOOLS OF ENGRAVING (HOLBEIN AND DÜRER) 81 DESIGN IN THE FLORENTINE SCHOOLS OF ENGRAVING (SANDRO BOTTICELLI) 108 to say, the pen, producing shade by black lines, as old engraving did; You have thus three arts,--engraving, light-and-shade drawing, and 5. One, English,--to-day sold in the High Street,--Caricaturist Art. And of these, the Florentine and old English are divine work, A line is the simplest work of art you can produce. I mean, by engraving, the art of producing decoration on a surface by engraving, like fine wood-cutting, ignores light and shade; and that, in line-work,--do you mean to tell us that these ignore light and shade?'' engravings ever produced by art,--two subjects in Holbein''s Dance of beautiful or good a thing as a painting, or line engraving. great schools of European art, than the perfectness of modern line are to look for in engraving, as a separate art from that of painting.


id: 26496
title: Rembrandt''s Etching Technique: An Example
author: Morse, Peter
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  _Landscape with a hay barn and a flock of sheep._ Etching by Rembrandt, _A Rembrandt print in the collection of the Smithsonian Institution has prepared drawing on top of a white-grounded plate and traced the lines, Rembrandt almost certainly made all the etched lines in this print in a The author has attempted, by tracing only the etched lines in the print, Rembrandt''s print, _Landscape with a hay barn and a flock of sheep_. Rembrandt''s print, _Landscape with a hay barn and a flock of sheep_. plate is then put back in the acid and the remaining lines etched more Detail of the etched copper plate for Rembrandt''s print, _Christ seated Detail of Rembrandt''s finished print, _Landscape with a hay barn and a Detail of Rembrandt''s finished print, _Landscape with a hay barn and a Detail of Rembrandt''s finished print, _Landscape with a hay barn and a


id: 21591
title: The Harbours of England
author: Ruskin, John
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  seen from any sea-cliff, with its four or five square-set sails. fishing-boat, collier, and ship of the line, as the great glory of this or shattered boat, is a noble subject, while a ship in full sail, or a Things have been painted which have a general effect of ships, just as Sea-like, on right hand and left,--but at least setting close before of the Sea, cannot for the same reason enter into the Mind of Ships, in Coast, Turner appears to have gained many ideas about shipping, which, afterwards forgot; namely, that both ships and sea were things that of ship form into oil, and made his noblest work in drawing rich in hues engraving Turner had made a drawing of Ramsgate for the Southern Coast I look upon this as one of the noblest sea-pieces which Turner ever This drawing has always been interesting to me among Turner''s sea


id: 22574
title: The Best Portraits in Engraving
author: Sumner, Charles
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  Engraving is one of the fine arts, and in this beautiful family has remarks that the former "paints men in general, a portrait-painter a Vandyck from producing portraits precious in the history of art. engraver Longhi in his interesting work, _La Calcografia_.[3] Dwelling A good engraving is an undoubted work of art, but the artist, whether painter or engraver, naturally excelling in But choice portraits are less numerous in engraving than in Pontius, designer and engraver, whose portrait of RUBENS is of great engraved portraits in the history of the art is his CARDINAL at the head of engraved portraits, although not particularly pleasing beautiful engraved portrait that exists. studied all the remarkable engraved portraits at the royal work remembered only for its engraved portraits, his famous life He was eminently a portrait engraver, which I must insist is the companion of the great portraits in the past; but here the engraver


id: 34869
author: Hill, Thomas George
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  known straightforward line drawings reproduced by half-tone; in other of the plate, the drawing is made on the paper with a pencil of a Fig. 1.--A wood engraving, by Edmund Evans, from the original drawing engravings are reproductions of line drawings, so that although we may [Illustration: PLATE 7.--Half Tone reproduction of a photograph taken In making drawings for reproduction by means of the half-tone process, line block, whilst the third is a reproduction by half-tone of a [Illustration: PLATE 12.--Three Colour Half Tone.] In making their drawings for reproduction by line blocks, authors have expressed by drawing with white ink on black paper. black ink where the reproduction by line block is possible. important, so that the result is a block or a plate which will print inches for half tone three colour blocks and photogravure plates. skill is required; for ordinary printing on good plate paper the

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  The Essentials of Illustration A Practical Guide to the Reproduction of Drawings & Photographs for the Use of Scientists & Others


id: 36751
title: Engraving for Illustration: Historical and Practical Notes
author: Kirkbride, Joseph
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  early pictorial reproductions from engraved wood blocks. of substantial progress, and impressed the art of wood engraving with attention of the artistic world, and for many years wood engraving was The exact measure of Bewick''s influence on the art of wood engraving The possibilities of the wood engraver''s art, therefore, transition, _i.e._ Niello work to engraving as a reproductive art, is in the reception accorded by her artists to the art of metal engraving. into England of metal engraving as a reproductive art is doubtful. style of Houbraken, a Dutch artist, who some time previously engraved a was a brilliant exponent of the expressive power of the engraver''s art. The work of the engraver, like many other phases of reproductive art, is employment of process engraving for purposes of pictorial illustration the wood engraver''s art to the amplification of their half tone blocks. Process engraving, artistic, 58. Wood engraving, pictorial and artistic effects, 14.


id: 40924
title: The Invention of Lithography
author: Senefelder, Alois
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  press and paper, and printing on stone probably would not have been rub away than the ordinary copper-plate printing-ink. came the need for a little capital, to buy a press, some stones, paper, rubbing oil over the stone instead of water, while for printing I used chemical printing, I thought of inking an etched copper plate with a known about color, that I might use stone for cotton-printing. Certain methods of stone-printing demand, besides the ink, a fatty, work to mix gum with the printing-color or with the water used to dampen acid-proof ink, smear it on the color-stone, and apply a clean linen or best chemical ink on a perfectly prepared plate, cannot do good work This printing with various colors is a process for which the stone is printing-color, is under the surface of the stone, the design having When the design is dry, the whole stone is inked with printing-color,


id: 33751
title: A Treatise on Etching
author: Lalanne, Maxime
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  copper plate with a ground or varnish composed of wax and resinous 1. A COPPER PLATE on which to execute your etching. 5. ETCHING-GROUND, with which to protect the plate against the action of ETCHING POINTS OR NEEDLES, for scratching the lines into the ground. AN ETCHING-TRAY to hold the acid during the operation of biting. which the acid may bite little holes in the plate; burning ruins the ordinary etching-ground, just as if the plate had never yet been touched bitten line, as the acid bites into the copper perpendicularly at right This inequality disappears if a plate in which etched lines and dry =Stopping-out Varnish dropped on a Plate while Biting.=--You are =Stopping-out Varnish dropped on a Plate while Biting.=--You are quickly, as the biting of a plate etched in the bath in this manner the plate, produces the difference in the engraved lines. ordinary etching-ground on a copper plate sufficiently heated; then take


id: 40198
title: Practical Lithography
author: Seymour, Alfred
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  The ink used for transferring impressions from one printing surface to Essential Features--Varnish Transfer Paper--Damp-stone Essential Features--Varnish Transfer Paper--Damp-stone transferring large work in which a number of printings are involved, and lithographic hand-roller charged with good black printing ink. the angles formed by the register lines after the first printing (Fig. 10A), and then to place them to corresponding lines on each colour of colours in the design as upon the manipulation of the printing inks, For effective colour printing the paper must also possess several other printed design from a suitably prepared paper to the metal plates in Impression--Cylinder Covering--Colour Sequence--Printing Impression--Cylinder Covering--Colour Sequence--Printing impression of the printing forme on the metal plate. a drawing for Tin-plate Printing must appear on the lithographic stone transferred to stone and printed in the usual way, would be practically sufficient time for printing, and to ink up the transfer with the


id: 40589
title: A Brief History of Wood-engraving from Its Invention
author: Cundall, Joseph
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  Wood-Engraving in England in the Fifteenth Century--William the first book, printed from type, that had wood engravings. of the fifteenth century, illustrated a few books printed in Italy, is This book contains the first decorative work by wood-engraving we have met These works mark an important era in the history of wood-engraving and Dürer made also many drawings on wood which were engraved and printed under wood-engravings, after Dürer''s drawings, appeared between the years 1510 work, the most important production of the art of wood-engraving the world designed and engraved pictures for books. books and printed them, but designed ornamental borders and engraved them. several excellent wood-engravings published in London in illustration of wood-engraver at Antwerp, Christoph Jegher, who worked for many years with engraving, and devoted himself to drawings for the illustration of books. fifteenth century, many artists and engravers produced work of great merit:


id: 21790
title: The Dance of Death
author: Vauzelles, Jean de
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  as "_Holbein''s Dance of Death._" It is a small _quarto_, bearing on discourse, _De la Necessite de la Mort qui ne laisse riens estre designed but actually cut on the wood some eleven years before the book that "Epistre" expressly refers to "_la mort de celluy, qui nous en a to the so-called "Little Dance of Death," an alphabet by Holbein, engraved in 1833 for Douce''s _Holbein''s Dance of Death_. Adam and Eve, preceded by Death, playing on a Pour quelque bien qui uous abonde, Mal pour uous qui iustifiez Qui est celluy, tant soit grande homme, Et de la Mort, qui tout assomme, Mal pour uous qui ainsi osez Est via quæ videtur homini iusta: nouissima autem eius deducunt hominem [Illustration: THE RICH MAN.] [Illustration: THE OLD MAN.] Vous qui estes par trop charge. [Illustration: THE ESCUTCHEON OF DEATH.] _Of this edition of Holbein''s "The Dance of Death,"


id: 34113
title: An Almanac of Twelve Sports
author: Kipling, Rudyard
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  God knows you can enter the game And the price of the game is a candle-[Illustration: January.] Each man seeks it a different way [Illustration: February.] The horse is ridden--the jockey rides-And I should leave this play alone. [Illustration: March.] Lean days and lives enforced pure. [Illustration: April.] Men and not Gods torment you, little fishes. [Illustration: May.] Thank God who made the British Isles And taught me how to play, [Illustration: June.] [Illustration: July.] A maid may work a man''s salvation. Four horses and a girl are not, [Illustration: August.] So greet we Christmas Day. Oh Christian load your gun and then, [Illustration: September.] [Illustration: October.] _Man cannot tell but Allah knows [Illustration: November.] Over the ice she flies Stars in my true-love''s eyes Now will I fly as she flies ... Stars that I saw in her eyes [Illustration: December.] And the candle''s down to the socket--


id: 48924
author: Pennell, Joseph
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  Here are locomotives, dredges, lock-gates, huge bulks of iron, great the French Canal, completed and working up to, I believe, Gatun Lock built to carry the huge engines that drag the long trains of dirt and you, and show you how, the French worked on the Canal right across the American politics--which we are in for; but to draw the Canal as it is, from Colon, on the left bank of the French Canal, seen on the right of While I was on the Isthmus the old line from Gatun to the Culebra Cut drawing was made looking across the lake near Gatun, with the dam in does the work of digging the Canal and filling the trains, and does it The drawing shows the two locks side by side, the great will be filled by a small lake between this lock and Pedro Miguel. lock--the last on the Canal.

title:
  Joseph Pennell''s pictures of the Panama Canal Reproductions of a series of lithographs made by him on the Isthmus of Panama, January—March 1912, together with impressions and notes by the artist


