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William B. Purvis (12 August 1838 – 10 August 1914) [1] was an African-American inventor and businessman who received multiple patents in the late 19th-century. His inventions included improvements on paper bags, an updated fountain pen design, improvement to the hand stamp, and a close-conduit electric railway system.
Line engraving is a term for engraved images printed on paper to be used as prints or illustrations. The term is mainly used in connection with 18th- or 19th-century commercial illustrations for magazines and books or reproductions of paintings. It is not a technical term in printmaking, and can cover a variety of techniques, giving similar ...
Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Pages in category "19th-century printmakers" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total.
[1] Whatever the name, the popular print format joined the photograph album as a fixture in the late 19th-century Victorian parlor. The reverse side of the card as seen above. Early in its introduction, the cabinet card ushered in the temporary disuse of the photographic album which had come into existence commercially with the carte de visite ...
Épinal prints were prints on popular subjects rendered in bright, sharp colors, sold in France in the 19th century. They owe their name to the fact that the first publisher of such images, Jean-Charles Pellerin, who was born in Épinal, named the printing house he founded in 1796 Imagerie d'Épinal. [1]
The darker blocks are images. The whole bed of type is printed on a single sheet of paper, which is then folded and cut to form many individual pages of a book. The general form of letterpress printing with a platen press shows the relationship between the forme (the type), the pressure, the ink, and the paper.
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