. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. Figure 13.â"Pintail Duck" by Iiiomas Bewick (actual size), from History of British birds, vol. 2, 1804. The detail opposite is enlarged three times. ^'â ^C^'^Hlii^' At about the same time the all-iron Stanhope press began to be manufactured in quantity, and shortly the new inking roller invented by the indispensable Earl came into use to supplant the old inking balls. Later in the century (there is no need to go into specific detail here) calendered and coated papers were introduced, and wood engraving on these glossy papers became
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. Figure 13.â"Pintail Duck" by Iiiomas Bewick (actual size), from History of British birds, vol. 2, 1804. The detail opposite is enlarged three times. ^'â ^C^'^Hlii^' At about the same time the all-iron Stanhope press began to be manufactured in quantity, and shortly the new inking roller invented by the indispensable Earl came into use to supplant the old inking balls. Later in the century (there is no need to go into specific detail here) calendered and coated papers were introduced, and wood engraving on these glossy papers became a medium that could reproduce wash drawings, crayon drawings, pencil drawings, and oil paintings .so faith- full\ that all the original textures were apparent.^" The engraver, concerned entirely with accurate repro- duction, became little more than a mechanic whv rendered pictures drawn on the blocks by an artist. In time, photographic processes came to be used for transferring pictures to the blocks and eventually, of course, photomechanical halftones replaced the wood engraver altogether. '" The elcctrotyping proccs,s, which came into prominence in 1839 throut;h the experiments of Professor Jacobi in St. Peters- burg and Jordan and .Spencer in England, had made it possible to produce substitute plates of the highest fidelity. For fine work, these were much superior to Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original United States National Museum; Smithsonian Institution; United States. Dept. of the Interior. Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc. ]; for sale by the Supt. of Docs. , U. S. Govt Print. Off.
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