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Subject:Re: It's all Gutenberg's fault From:DAVID IBBETSON <ibbetson -at- IDIRECT -dot- COM> Date:Sat, 18 May 1996 21:00:28 -0400
Robert Plasmodon writes:
> Color reappeared with advanced lithography in the nineteenth
>century.
I used to have a set of Surtees' works from early in the 19th century. The
plates were hand-coloured with water-colour wash. This was common practice.
For darker areas the wash went over some cross-hatching. Occasionally the
colours differed from the text descriptions. Some things never change.
Robert should have said something like "mass-produced colour appeared...".
The plates from illustrated magazines were an important decorative feature
in poor 19th century homes.
David Ibbetson, Ontario, Canada ibbetson -at- idirect -dot- com
For all a rhetorician's rules'
Teach him but to name his tools.
Hudibras 1.89
Samuel Butler1612-1680
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