Modern methods of illustrating books / [Henry Trueman Wood].

  • Wood, Henry Trueman, 1845-1929.
Date:
1887
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Credit: Modern methods of illustrating books / [Henry Trueman Wood]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    working at the subject are all turning their attention in other directions, where there ' is better promise of satisfactory result. The production of engraved plates direct from paintings or sketches in tints, by what is known as heliogravure or photogravure, is of course a very different matter. To the solution of this problem much time and a great deal of ingenuity has been devoted, nor has the success achieved been slight. Of recent years very great advance has been made, and quite lately results have been shown by several different printers which appear to hold out the probability that the work of the copper-plate engraver may soon be superseded, at all events so far as relates to the reproduction of the work of others. The processes by which these results have been effected will, so far as they are public property, be considered in the following chapter. For the present we are concerned merely with the production of intaglio plates from line subjects alone. Any of the heliogravure processes are available, and many of them are used, for