Sujet
Cultivated Medlar (Mespilus germanica), c. 1800. Creator: Gerard van Spaendonck (Dutch, 1746-1822).
Légende
Cultivated Medlar (Mespilus germanica), c. 1800. The brown and blue-green inks were printed à la poupée. Instead of making a plate for each colour, a single plate is selectively inked in different colours using stumps of rags, known as dolls ( poupée in French), so that the complete design is printed at one time . Since this process is laborious, the plate was most often coloured by hand with watercolour, like the right-hand impression. The printed colour, however, creates a more beautiful effect, because all of the subtleties of the shading are evident. In comparison, the watercolour camouflages some of the finest detail.
Crédit
Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art
Notre référence
HRM19F77_068
Model release
NA
Property release
NA
Licence
Droits gérés
Format disponible
61,5Mo (5,9Mo) / 33,0cm x 46,7cm / 3899 x 5517 (300dpi)