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1922 Mt Fujiyama Small Sailboat Crystal Lake Sepia Rotogravure Vintage Print
Weare pleased to offer a historic 101+ year old ORIGINAL Rotogravure print titledMajestic Mountain of Japan Mirrored in Crystal Lake.
This beautiful 1922 vintage Sepia print is10.5" x 16" (PP0034) 8/23
Condition:
GoodCondition with some very light toning to the page due to age. There are afew small, closed tears present along the border. See photos. Pleasenote that there is printing on the reverse side of the page.
Gravureprinting originated in the early nineteenth century. The process did not becomewidespread until the early twentieth century, however, when newspapers embracedthis new technology. Characterized by quality halftone reproductions printed athigh speed on a variety of paper stock, gravure printing allowed the newspaperindustry to reproduce photographs and artwork on a mass scale on inexpensivenewsprint paper.
Thetechnology adopted by newspapers is more precisely called rotogravure—gravureprinting from an etched cylinder as opposed to a flat plate. Unlike theletterpress, which uses raised or relief printing, gravure uses intaglioprinting, in which metal is etched with recessed "cells" to hold theink. The process was first used in art reproduction because of its high-qualitytonal gradation and color depth. From this process evolved photogravure—gravureprinting where a plate is etched from a photographic image. Fox Talbot of GreatBritain produced the first photographic negatives in 1852. Karl Klic (Klitschor Klietsch) modified Talbot's process in 1879 by using copper cylinders(instead of plates) for rotary printing and rotogravure was born.
