Show ENGRAVING engraving dates back almost as as authentic of history there is me in engraving the as early as exodus bible and od this relates to a P about 1491 B C this nap the engrav engraving I 1 recording of 0 words and images stone wood and when metal the pe pw engraved plates or blocks w first printed from is involved in w obscurity the greeks are said herodotus to metallic have P prepared in macj apas have plates 13 C which in rt served for furnishing chies impression but it is not probable s were used tor for that purpose the nese are said by du halde to W practiced and this art as early as 1120 B some suppose that from thero thern art was transferred to europe first mentioned as having been P by an italian by the nama na cunio who executed wood engra engrave Vl in 1285 and who probably received art from the venetians A decree magistracy of venice of 1441 has b brought to light in which it is st that the art of painting cards fallen imported into decay for they were q printed on cloth or pape pap jg playing cards were in use w 1 11 and in order to pro produce cluce them sag rapidly it Is probable engraved P were used from W which to print gj it thus from seems probable that P engraved plates came into aj use in the fifteenth century it b a fixed art in Get germany many the artt ing known koniow as Brief maler and H or figure ut applied ther art rt to ht higher aber p af pf cutting ideal figures on 1 I wood face e and using them to printing 6 of the earliest of the as date of 1423 and is of folio size a preserved at a convent at bux near memmingen memminger Mem m these early beginnings it was A short step to movable types was early used for this work german berman copperplate print Is in ex ence ce which bears date of 1461 and 0 is o likely this was the oldest apeci i however gives the credit first arst using copper for engraving to guerre berre a native of florence who r a goldsmith and engraved figures this form of engraving early brought to a high state of section by the great artists aqua tinta engraving is much ad alj ed d today because of its similarity F water color codr or india ink drawing j of french origin and dates from ot or half painted style a Intro introduce dued into england by prince pert ert who may have bave invented it but p probably learned it from an officer ened ed ludwig von steel engraving may be regarded reg as american process invented by mr sob perkins ns of newburyport mass though the metal had pre been used in eng engana and for this pose ose mr perkins ns invention was ie e line of bank note printing and pursued with a view of preventing imitation of bank notes his in tion was approved by the state of chu in 1808 when it was de ajsa by i law that all banks should use P plates in the printing of r bank notes for over a hundred previous to this time england teen been trying to perfect bank notes a 1818 1918 offered such inducements mr perkins went to london with tt ot of entering competition furnishing fuini shing a design tor for bank of land nd notes the superiority of his aa was at once prece prec ived elved but not as ily ly acknowledged and he failed to je te the work later he furnished s bank of ireland with plates volun y agreeing that if the plates were edhe would furnish a new design of cost in 1857 there were half zen principal firms making a busl busi of bank note printing and each of ip had many branch establishments 1858 8 however they were all com into the american bank note pany ny I 1 inting from plates made directly 1 daguerreotypes was developed to jet eat extent by george Math mathiot lot of feun difed states coast survey be a n the years 1850 and 1858 he tot ot claim to be the inventor but agnore ore than any other person to de lt the subject is treated in den 4 the report of the U S coast ey y for 1854 this was practically ingin of the photoengraving photo engraving of r and really the first successful of preparing plates to print from from photographs it was used maps of the work of the suf survey vey and was successfully e advertising world |