Inside Out Library · Explore

A complete course of lithography: containing clear and explicit instructions in all the different branches and manners of that art: accompanied by illustrative specimens of drawings. To which is prefixed a history of lithography, from its origin to the present time (1819)

Senefelder, Alois, 1771-1834, Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764-1834, Callot, Jacques, 1592-1635, Prout, Samuel, 1783-1852, Schlichtegroll, Friedrich · London, R. Ackermann · leaf 225

An illustration from A complete course of lithography: containing clear and explicit instructions in all the different branches and manners of that art: accompanied by illustrative specimens of drawings. To which is prefixed a history of lithography, from its origin to the present time, 1819, leaf 225
common copper-plate press increases the evil of displacing or distorting the paper on the stone ; this is gene- rally caused by the efforts which the cylinder or roller makes, to seize the stone and paper and pass it underneath ; but as soon as this is the case the paper is no longer extended or… … at a perfect level with the point where it begins the printing. But as, on account of the process of putting on the colour, it is necessary to remove the roller a good distance back on the slanting block ; this requires great exertion on the part of the workmen, but in general such a contrivance is…

Lithography

Internet Archive · Getty Research Institute · Public domain (published before 1931). Free to use for anything.

More pictures from A complete course of lithography: containing clear and explicit instructions in all the different branches and manners of that art: accompanied by illustrative specimens of drawings. To which is prefixed a history of lithography, from its origin to the present time

More like this