New York City - West 42nd St.: 1927 E.O. Hoppe Phogogravure Book Plate View - $18 - (Iowa City, IA)

I have many similar items in my ebay store. Please click to view. Copperplate Photogravure Book Illustration View of New York City Traffic on West 42nd Street Satisfaction Guaranteed Offered is an original 1927 photogravure book illustration. Photogravure was made after a photograph by E. O. Hoppe [Emil Otto Hoppé], one of the most prominent photographers of the Edwardian era. It was included in the first edition of a Hoppé volume published in Germany in 1927. (Photogravure process explained below the illustration) A laser-printed facsimile of the copyright information as it appears in the atlas from which this map was removed will be included, on a peel-off, self-adhesive sheet. Purchasers who frame their pictures frequently affix that copyright statement to the back of the frame. Sheet size is about 8.25" x 10.25" / Printed area about 6.25" x 8.25" Image is shown below without its full margins; and without the caption which is repeated in English, German, French, and Spanish. About the PHOTOGRAVURE Process: This process was developed to provide an archivally permanent way of reproducing a photographic image. Because of its high quality and richness, photogravure was used for both original fine art prints and for photo-reproduction of works from other media such as paintings. Photogravure uses a flat copperplate etched rather deeply and printed by hand. Photogravure registers an extraordinary variety of tones, through the transfer of etching ink from an etched copperplate to special dampened paper run through an etching press. The unique tonal range comes from photogravure's variable depth of etch, that is, the shadows are etched many times deeper than the highlights. Unlike half-tone processes which merely vary the size of dots, the actual quantity and depth of ink wells are varied in a photogravure plate and are often blended into a smooth tone by the printing process. Photogravures are a bit difficult to scan. The depth and warmth of the process is consider…

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