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Leonardo da Vinci and the Graphic Arts: The Early Invention of Relief-Etching

04/1971 | 817 | 113

Pages: 188-195

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Author:

Reti, Ladislao (Reti, Ladislao)

Subjects

artists:

Leonardo da Vinci

artists:

Blake, William

artists:

Bodmer, Karl

artists:

Gillot, Firmin

artists:

Senefelder, Alois

dates:

1490-1549

dates:

1750-1849

places:

Italy

places:

England

subjects:

Manuscripts / Incunabula

subjects:

Printing plates

subjects:

Printing presses / Relief etching

subjects:

Italian painting / Prints

subjects:

British painting / Engravings / Etchings

Illustrations

Attributed works:

21. The Printer, by Jost Amman; In Hans Sachs: Eygentliche Beschreibung, Frankfurt, 1568.

Attributed works:

22. Details of a Printing Press, Showing Carriage, Rounce, Tympan and Frisket, by Leonardo da Vinci. (Cod. Atl. 372 Recto b.)

Attributed works:

23. Details of a Printing Press, Showing the Hose as Well as the Elements Observed in Fig. 22, by Leonardo da Vinci. (Cod. Atl. 358 Recto b.)

Attributed works:

24. Printing Press with Quick-Acting Double Screw and Press with Carriage Moved by the Pressing Screw, by Leonardo da Vinci. (Cod. Atl. 358 Recto b.)

Attributed works:

25. Studies of the Spine, by Leonardo da Vinci. A Note on Printing is at the Bottom of the Same Page, on the Right. (Windsor 19007 Verso, Anat. Fogli A. 8 Verso, Detail.) Reproduced by Gracious Permission of H. M. The Queen.

Attributed works:

26. De Humanis Corporis Fabrica Libri Septem, by Andreas Vesalius, Basle, 1543. The spine.

Attributed works:

27. Direct Print of a Leaf of Sage (Nature-Printing), by Leonardo da Vinci. (Cod. Atl. 72 Verso a.)

Attributed works:

28. Relief-Etching, by William Blake, from Songs of Innocence (1789).

Attributed works:

29. Relief-Etching, by William Blake, from America (1793), p.8.

Attributed works:

30. Relief-Etching, by Karl Bodmer (Verglas, 1879), by the Comte Process, as Indicated on the Lower Right Corner. By Courtesy of the New York Public Library (Print Division).

Attributed works:

A. Print by Attilio Rossi, Reproducing the Relief-Printing Method Recommended by Leonardo da Vinci (From Windsor No. 19009 Verso.)

Western art unattributed:

20. Device of the Parisian Printer Jodocus Badius Ascensius (1507).

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