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Transfer printing enabled the high quality of representation that had been developed in painting on porcelain to be done far more cheaply, in the process making large numbers of painters redundant. Initially, it was also mostly used on porcelain, but after a few years it was also used on the new high-quality earthenwares that English potters ...
A California job case. A California job case is a kind of type case: a compartmentalized wooden box used to store movable type used in letterpress printing. [1] It was the most popular and accepted of the job case designs in America. The California job case took its name from the Pacific Coast location of the foundries that made the case ...
Rauschenberg then used screen printing soon after that in his 1962 work Crocus, to transfer an image in black ink. [71] 1962 – Crown Point Press established by Kathan Brown, [72] one of the important and dynamic print shops that were a vital part of an American print renaissance. These print shops operated in the spirit that their European ...
Modern, factory-produced movable type was available in the late nineteenth century. It was held in the printing shop in a job case, a drawer about two inches (5 cm) high, three feet (90 cm) wide, and about two feet (60 cm) deep, with many small compartments for the "sorts" (various letters and ligatures).
Woodcut is a relief printing artistic technique in printmaking in which an image is carved into the surface of a block of wood, with the printing parts remaining level with the surface while the non-printing parts are removed, typically with gouges. The areas to show 'white' are cut away with a knife or chisel, leaving the characters or image ...
Diffusion transfer. Verifax, Copyproof; Photomechanical transfer (also PMT') Duostat, duoprint; Retroflex (printing process) Dual spectrum process; LightJet; Ozalid; Chemical processes Aniline process; Cyanotype (used for blueprints) Diazotype (also whiteprint, ammonia print, or gas print) Heat-sensitivity methods Thermofax (also thermography ...
This print was brittle, acidic, discolored, and tearing due to light and pollutants exposure as well as a previous restoration with acidic materials. When it underwent conservation treatment, the print's previous mount was stripped. The print was washed in a calcium solution that reversed some yellow discoloration.
The Tench, A History of British Fishes (1835), by William Yarrell. The terms "woodcut" and "wood engraving" were used interchangeably in the early and middle part of the 19th century, until the modern distinction emerged towards the end of the century, with confusion often extending into the 20th century among non-specialists.