... Japanese wood-cutting and wood-cut printing (1894)
Tokuno, T, Koehler, S. R. (Sylvester Rosa), 1837-1900 · Washington : Govt. print. off. · leaf 42
238 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1892. The old. printers of Europe, down to the beginning of this century, inked their blocks with printer’s balls, such as are shown in Fig. 5, reproduced from Jost Amman’s u Charta Lusoria,” published at Nurem- berg in the year 1588. The custom of the present day is… … their purity as well as in their surface quality. The use of a brush instead of a roller for inking the blocks is also a factor of great im- portance. The brush is a pliable instrument, capable of expression in which to be guided. A small specimen of this kind is shown in Frame 67 A, on the eastern…
Wood-engraving · Color prints, Japanese
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