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2. Copperplate map of London - Wikipedia

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   The "Copperplate" map of London is an early large-scale printed map of the City of London and its immediate environs, surveyed between 1553 and 1559, which survives only in part. It is the earliest true map of London (as opposed to panoramic views, such as those of Anton van den Wyngaerde). The original map was probably designed for hanging on ...

3. Intaglio (printmaking) - Wikipedia

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   Intaglio (/ ɪnˈtæli.oʊ, - ˈtɑːli -/ in-TAL-ee-oh, -⁠TAH-lee-; [1] Italian: [inˈtaʎʎo]) is the family of printing and printmaking techniques in which the image is incised into a surface and the incised line or sunken area holds the ink. [2] It is the direct opposite of a relief print where the parts of the matrix that make the image ...

4. Wood engraving - Wikipedia

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   Leather-covered sandbag, wood blocks and tools (burins), used in wood engraving. Wood engraving is a printmaking technique, in which an artist works an image into a block of wood. Functionally a variety of woodcut, it uses relief printing, where the artist applies ink to the face of the block and prints using relatively low pressure.

5. Photogravure - Wikipedia

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   Photogravure. Photogravure (in French héliogravure) is a process for printing photographs, also sometimes used for reproductive intaglio printmaking. It is a photo-mechanical process whereby a copper plate is grained (adding a pattern to the plate) and then coated with a light-sensitive gelatin tissue which had been exposed to a film positive ...

6. Engraving - Wikipedia

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   Other terms often used for printed engravings are copper engraving, copper-plate engraving or line engraving. Steel engraving is the same technique, on steel or steel-faced plates, and was mostly used for banknotes, illustrations for books, magazines and reproductive prints, letterheads and similar uses from about 1790 to the early 20th century, when the technique became less popular, except ...

7. Transfer printing - Wikipedia

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   Transfer printing is a method of decorating pottery or other materials using an engraved copper or steel plate from which a monochrome print on paper is taken which is then transferred by pressing onto the ceramic piece. [1] Pottery decorated using this technique is known as transferware or transfer ware.

8. Hollywood put this New Bedford store on the map, but locals ...

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   New Bedford Ship Supply, located at 108 Front St., is open from 7 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday and 7 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Saturdays. Standard-Times staff writer Kathryn Gallerani can be ...

9. Aquatint - Wikipedia

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   Aquatint is an intaglio printmaking technique, a variant of etching that produces areas of tone rather than lines. For this reason it has mostly been used in conjunction with etching, to give both lines and shaded tone. [1] It has also been used historically to print in colour, both by printing with multiple plates in different colours, and by ...