City Hall Facade Seville/Sevilla Spain/España: 1925 Hielscher Photogravure View - $12 - (Iowa City, IA)
I have many similar items in my ebay store. Please click to view. Copperplate Photogravure Book Illustration View of the City Hall Facade in Seville Spain / España Satisfaction Guaranteed Offered is an original 1925 photogravure. On the west side of the Plaza San Francisco stands the Seville Town Hall, Ayuntamiento, an imposing Renaissance building (1527-64) with a richly decorated east front, one of the most charming examples of Plateresque style. Photogravure after a photograph by Kurt Hielscher (1881-1948), an important German architectural photographer of the early 20th century. (Photogravure process explained below the illustration) If requested at the time of purchase (and prior to initial shipping) I will be happy to include a peel-off, laser-printed facsimile of the copyright information as it appears in the book from which this photogravure was removed. 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 8.5" Image is shown below without its full margins; and without the caption which is repeated in English, Spanish, German, French, and Italian. 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 …
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