Prints: A Brief Review of Their Technique and History

Chapter 16: Transcriber’s Note

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The text offers a concise, accessible introduction to printmaking techniques and history. It explains the principal methods—woodcut and wood-engraving, engraving, dry-point, mezzotint, etching, and lithography—and the presses used, then surveys the art’s development from early utilitarian block prints through Renaissance intaglio and woodcut traditions to later national schools across Europe and America. Illustrated examples and discussions of topics such as chiaroscuro, color printing, publishing practices, and nineteenth-century revivals accompany recommendations for further reading.

Transcriber’s Note

Larger versions of most illustrations may be seen by right-clicking them and selecting an option to view them separately, or by double-tapping and/or stretching them.

Punctuation, hyphenation, and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in the original book; otherwise they were not changed.

Simple typographical errors were corrected; unpaired quotation marks were remedied when the change was obvious, and otherwise left unpaired.

Illustrations in this eBook have been positioned between paragraphs and outside quotations. In versions of this eBook that support hyperlinks, the page references in the List of Illustrations lead to the corresponding illustrations.