8 photomechanical prints ; 20 x 13.5 cm. + 1 p. advertisement
Description
"8 plates...1 woodburytype, 1 heliographic engraving from art, 1 Lichtdruck, 1 photogravure, 2 permanent ink photographs, 2 photoglyphic engravings...Plates by Strumper and Co., J. Leitch, A. Pumphrey, Fox Talbot,...Two photoglyphic engravings by Talbot which represent one of only about four publications with these prints; the Pumphrey plates with his detailed ad help pinpoint the prices charged for collotype printing at this time...and the photogravure by Leitch, who used Garnier's method in England."--Hanson Collection catalog, p. 59
Imprint
London : S. Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1878
In: A history and handbook of photography / tr. from the French of Gaston Tissandier, ed. by J. Thomson ... With upwards of seventy illustrations and some specimens of permanent processes. 2d and rev. ed. With an appendix by the late Henry Fox Talbot. London : S. Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1878 -- Title supplied by cataloger
Source
Forms part of the David A. Hanson Collection of the History of Photomechanical Reproduction
Frederick Leighton, R.A. / printed by the Woodbury permanent process, from a negative by Lock and Whitfield
Format (Extent)
1 photomechanical prints ; 20 x 13.5 cm
Description
"8 plates...1 woodburytype, 1 heliographic engraving from art, 1 Lichtdruck, 1 photogravure, 2 permanent ink photographs, 2 photoglyphic engravings...Plates by Strumper and Co., J. Leitch, A. Pumphrey, Fox Talbot,...Two photoglyphic engravings by Talbot which represent one of only about four publications with these prints; the Pumphrey plates with his detailed ad help pinpoint the prices charged for collotype printing at this time...and the photogravure by Leitch, who used Garnier's method in England."--Hanson Collection catalog, p. 59
Imprint
London : S. Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1878
In: A history and handbook of photography / tr. from the French of Gaston Tissandier, ed. by J. Thomson ... With upwards of seventy illustrations and some specimens of permanent processes. 2d and rev. ed. With an appendix by the late Henry Fox Talbot. London : S. Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1878 -- Title supplied by cataloger
Source
Forms part of the David A. Hanson Collection of the History of Photomechanical Reproduction