Etching and other graphic arts : an illustrated treatise (1922)
Plowman, George Taylor, 1869-1932 · New York : Dodd, Mead and Co. · leaf 70
was born at Prague, Bohemia, on No-vember 6,1771. It was while living in Munich,making a precarious livelihood by writingplays, that he stumbled upon this method ofgetting impressions from stone. The greatcost of printing his plays led him to tryreproducing the copy, written in reverse, oncopper by… … LA MAISON DESOLEE, PARIS A Lithograph by the Author OTHER GRAPHIC ARTS 43 ment with a fine-grained limestone muchused in Munich for floor-paving. His firsttrials were not very successful. The neces-sity for quickly jotting down the items of awashing list forced him one day to use astone and some…
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