Illustration Processes to 1900 (July 2013)
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Illustration Processes to 1900 (I-20), Rare Book School, taught by Terry Belanger, 22-27 July 2013
Relief
Hand press period
Woodcuts
C19
Wood engravings
Bewick manner
Facsimile
Interpretive
White-line
Stereotype/electrotypes
Wax engraving
Photographically assisted processes
Photoxylograph
Process relief line engraving
Process false halftones
Process relief halftones
C20
C20 developments
Scraperboard
Intaglio
Hand-press period
Copper engravings
Etchings
Etchings on an ungrounded plate
Line engravings
Mezzotints
Stipple engravings
Aquatints
C19
Photographically assisted
letter press -- ~200 sq in of printing space, about 200lb of pressure, so ~1lb per sq in (not much at all)
copperplate: under pressure of rolling press, lines squash together