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Gen Jackson (search for this): article 6
can a drawing on stone be printed from? I would say that the limits of a newspaper article will not permit me to explain. This style of engraving is not adapted to works or subjects of small requiring a high style of art; but for works of large size it is well adapted, as may be seen in lithographs by the French artists, who probably excel all others in this style of engraving. Some of their productions are perfect gems of art. The cheap, gandy, colored daubs so ! common — such as Gen Jackson at the battle of New Orleans, Bonaparte crossing the Alps, (when you are momentarily looking for him to fall over backwards.) death of Gen. Washington, and a host of others, are the production of Yankee lithographers, (not artists) These are colored with an abundance of red, blue, and yellow, after they are printed. The stones from which lithographic pictures are taken cannot be duplicated perfectly, although I have seen a statement in the newspapers, within a few months, that Messr
Washington (search for this): article 6
s not adapted to works or subjects of small requiring a high style of art; but for works of large size it is well adapted, as may be seen in lithographs by the French artists, who probably excel all others in this style of engraving. Some of their productions are perfect gems of art. The cheap, gandy, colored daubs so ! common — such as Gen Jackson at the battle of New Orleans, Bonaparte crossing the Alps, (when you are momentarily looking for him to fall over backwards.) death of Gen. Washington, and a host of others, are the production of Yankee lithographers, (not artists) These are colored with an abundance of red, blue, and yellow, after they are printed. The stones from which lithographic pictures are taken cannot be duplicated perfectly, although I have seen a statement in the newspapers, within a few months, that Messrs. Hoyer & Ludwig made use of a process by which they could do it. That they may have a process of transferring an impression already taken to a fres
Byrne (search for this): article 6
ed exactly alike by hand, but there are means by which engraved steel plates may be made, provided the originals are to be had. The first may be produced by the electrotype process, and this is practised extensively in the Northern cities, and affords a cheap means of furnishing illustrations for books, newspapers, advertisements, &c. These electrotypes, as they are called, may be seen in any printing office. Steel plates are re-produced by the following process: (I quote from Byrne's Practical Metal Worker's Assistant, page 78) "A soft steel plate is engraved with the required subject in the most finished style of art, either by hand or mechanically, or the two combined, and the plate is then hardened. A decarbonized steel cylinder (that is, a steel cylinder returned to its original state of soft iron,) is next rolled over the hardened plate by powerful machinery, until the engraved impression appears in relief, the hollow lines of the original becoming ridges up
Ure (search for this): article 6
teel plates, every one of which becomes absolutely a counterpart of the original, and every plate when hardened will yield the enormous number of 150,000 impressions without any perceptible difference between the first and the last" The plates, however, are not usually hardened, as they are liable to break, but in their soft state are sufficiently hard to last to take 50,000 impressions; and in case it wears out, the roller is left, by which a new plate can be made at a trifling cost. Dr. Ure, in his dictionary of arts and sciences, states that the Queen's head on the English postage stamp has never been engraved but once; although millions upon millions of the stamps have been made. In the above quotation, the phrase "either by hand or mechanically," may need explanation.-- Some of the engraving on bank notes, strange as it may seem, is actually done by a machine. As specimens of this I would refer the reader to the delicate and intricate engraving around the figures in b
Hoyer (search for this): article 6
kson at the battle of New Orleans, Bonaparte crossing the Alps, (when you are momentarily looking for him to fall over backwards.) death of Gen. Washington, and a host of others, are the production of Yankee lithographers, (not artists) These are colored with an abundance of red, blue, and yellow, after they are printed. The stones from which lithographic pictures are taken cannot be duplicated perfectly, although I have seen a statement in the newspapers, within a few months, that Messrs. Hoyer & Ludwig made use of a process by which they could do it. That they may have a process of transferring an impression already taken to a fresh stone, so as to assist the artist materially in copying with tolerable accuracy and uniformity, is very probable; but that they cannot make perfect copies, their works show for themselves. In comparing a half dozen genuine $100 bills of their engraving, a marked difference may be seen. I have not examined the smaller denominations with the view o
Harper (search for this): article 6
and newspaper illustrations, for two reasons--first, cheapness, second, because it can be worked off (in printers' pariance) with type and in a common press, white the two latter kinds cannot, but require presses peculiar to themselves. Where illustrations are soon in a page of letter press or printed matter, they may be set down as wood engravings. It is not adapted to subjects or purposes requiring a very high style of art, nevertheless we see some admirable specimens in the Messrs. Harper's publications and those of the American Tract Society. Steel engraving is only used in works requiring the highest style of art, such as embellishments of the costliest books, copies of celebrated paintings, bank notes, &c, and is the costliest of all, Examples of this kind of engraving may be seen in any of our bank notes, and the engravings formerly sent out unnormally by the American Art Union. Should it he asked why it is necessary that bank notes should be of this kind, I wou
Ludwig (search for this): article 6
ne arts is a misnomer; there is no engraving about it. The word lithography means the art of drawing on stone; hence a picture printed from "a drawing on stone" is called a lithograph, and such are our Confederate notes, engraved by Hoyer & Ludwig, which are so extensively counterfeited. Should it be asked how can a drawing on stone be printed from? I would say that the limits of a newspaper article will not permit me to explain. This style of engraving is not adapted to works or subjecth an abundance of red, blue, and yellow, after they are printed. The stones from which lithographic pictures are taken cannot be duplicated perfectly, although I have seen a statement in the newspapers, within a few months, that Messrs. Hoyer & Ludwig made use of a process by which they could do it. That they may have a process of transferring an impression already taken to a fresh stone, so as to assist the artist materially in copying with tolerable accuracy and uniformity, is very probable;
September 8th, 1862 AD (search for this): article 6
nk were declared genuine. It is an old adage that the cheapest things are the dearest in the long run, and I think the people at large will find it so in this instance, if the Government does not. It is to be regretted that the Secretary of the Treasury, or whoever had the matter in charge, did not in the first instance procure from Europe good engravers, if we did not have a sufficiency at home, and more especially a person who understood the art of reproducing engraved steel plates. We would then have had uniformity at least in our currency, which is a great desideratum, as it would tend greatly to prevent counterfeiting and make detection much more easy. Had this been done, it would have saved much trouble and individual loss. It is to be hoped that the powers that he will make the latter good. I remarked before that the Government probably did the best it could at the time. It should have "made haste more slowly." G. W. N. Hardstown, Ga., September 8, 1862