Pen and Ink Drawing, reproduced by process block.
Slightly reduced.
Pen and Ink Drawing reproduced by
Photo-lithography.
These modern methods provide a most important and valuable means of producing illustrations for printing purposes. By their aid, any photograph, drawing, design, or engraving of any kind can be translated into a block, and with such success that, with suitable subjects, it is often hardly possible to tell the original from the copy; and not only do they enable surface blocks to be produced with great rapidity and at slight cost, but they give blocks capable of producing effects which could not be obtained at all by wood engravings, or, if at all, only at great expense.
Many artists have hailed with delight the process of Zinc Etching, as by its means they obtain a perfect fac-simile of their work, more especially pen and ink drawing, which could never be reproduced by any other method with the same accuracy and delicacy of finish which the zinc process gives, and which could not by wood engraving be an absolute fac-simile.
Pen and Ink Drawing,
reproduced by process block.
Slightly reduced.