Printmaking Collection

Lithography stones, Parc Metallurgique, Dommartin-le-Franc
Lithography stones of plans for metalwork, used for printing, exhibited at the Parc Metallurgique or Metallurgic Park, an interpretation centre for ancient and contemporary metallurgy

Portable darkroom
A man uses a self contained, portable darkroom to develop photographic prints. Date: 19th century

ENGRAVERS WORKSHOP
Teams of engravers were employed by illustrated magazines like the Illustrated London News, transforming the artists drawings into blocks for printing. Date: circa 1850

TAKING PRINT C18
Taking a print in a French engravers workshop, Date: circa 1760

TAKING PRINT FROM PRESS
An engraver takes a print in a French workshop. Date: 1852

JAPANESE WOOD-ENGRAVER
A Japanese wood-engraver at work at Yokohama. Date: 1864

ENGRAVERS STUDIO C18
A copperplate engraving studio in 18th century France. Date: circa 1760

ENGRAVER AT WORK
An engraver at work before a window. Date: 1887

FANCY PORTRAIT 1658
Austrian archduke Leopold Wilhelm occupies only a tiny part of his portrait, a riot of figures which symbolise his interests and activities, to say nothing of his wife ! Date: 1658

LITHOGRAPH TOUR DE FORCE
A tour-de-force of lithography, no doubt done to show the range and versatility of which the lithograph is capable Date: circa 1840

Making a Lithograph
Revealing a lithograph printed on a lithograph stone

Wood Engraver C1850
Wood engraver at work on a block. Date: circa 1850

Visscher at Work
The great Flemish engraver Jakob Visscher at work : he made one of the finest panoramas of early London. Date: 17th century

Engravers Tools, Diderot
The tools of the copperplate engraver. Date: circa 1760

Taking a Print (Cochin)
Taking a print, in a printmakers workshop : one man is using the heavy hand press, while others are at work on plates. Date: 17th century

Engravers Studio
An engraver and his assistants at work in a French atelier

Printing Example 1691
A very fine example of the use of fonts in 17th century printing

Japanese Printmaking
How they print from wood blocks in the Orient - apart from its subject interest, a remarkable pastiche of Japanese painting

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