Copper Printing Plates - Set 3. By: Mrs. Gemstone, – Vintage Wall Art
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Few images capture their era like this historic print of Copper Printing Plates - Set 3. By: Mrs. Gemstone,. It comes from the Snapshots of the Past collection, curated over 25 years for its historical value.
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Copper Printing Plates - Set 3. By: Mrs. Gemstone,
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Copper Printing Plates, Set 3, credited to Mrs. Gemstone, is one of the book-related pictures in this collection. Copper was the preferred metal for engraved illustrations because it held very fine lines and could produce thousands of clean impressions before the surface wore down. Engravers cut designs into the plate by hand with a burin, then inked the plate, wiped it, and pressed paper into the recessed lines, which gives each print the crisp, slightly raised texture of intaglio printing. The record says little about the maker, so the set is best read as evidence of how illustrated books were produced.
| Original scan | 1,274 × 1,378 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 3544443924_644e90c28d_o Copper Printing Plates - Set 3 mrs |
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