![]() Historical authors limit themselves mainly to mentioning the provenance of certain types of paper suitable for the printing of etchings and engravings, without describing their properties. The first contemporary reference to intaglio printing paper is by the French engraver Abraham Bosse (1645, France). Thereafter, in general, Albrecht Dürer and Lucas van Leyden prefer papers for intaglio printing that tend to be somewhat thinner and suppler than their woodcut papers (1500-1530 ca., Germany, Northern Netherlands). There are practically no indications available to what paper is preferred for intaglio printing before 1500, but it seems that any kind of paper then available is used for this purpose. From 1460-1465 onwards there are indications that a roller press is used in the Upper Rhine area and from 1470 in Northern Italy. The first engravings are printed by hand rubbing the back of the paper with a small, hard object. Survey of developments up to 1850 Intaglio printing starts in Germany around 1430 and somewhat later in Italy. Jahrhunderts waren Papiermacher in der Lage, Papier für besondere Verwendungszwecke, wie das Drucken von Kupferstichen und Radierungen, herzustellen. In Wirklichkeit kann man eine große Vielfalt an Papieren antreffen, wenn man alte Drucke studiert. Diese Untersuchung zeigt, daß frühe Drucker das ihren Bedürfnissen entsprechende Papier danach auswählten, was auf dem Markt erhältlich war. Die vorliegende Chronologie wurde zusammengestellt, um eine Vorstellung von den bis 1850 für den Tiefdruck verwendeten Papierarten zu erhalten. Engraving, printed on blue paper and heightened with white (see: 1555, Antwerp). 217), engraved by Dirck Volckertszoon Coornhert after Maarten van Heemskerck, published by Hieronymus Cock, Antwerpen 1555. 1 One of the Victories of Emperor Charles V (Holl. Nevertheless, important developments concerning the manufacture of paper occur in England and France during the second half of the 18th century and the first quarter of the 19th century, on which subject there is sufficient information available. This may give a distorted view because it offers little information on what is going on elsewhere before 1850. Due to current and thus incomplete research, the data in this chronology come mainly from Middle and Western European sources. The list comprises a selection on the subject of paper from my research on the history of the technique of intaglio printing, for which I study actual prints, as well as historical tools, machines, texts and images – all referred to as “sources” here –, as well as modern literature. This chronology of data aims to be a step in this direction. No overall view on the historical use of paper in intaglio printing has yet been published. It was only in the last quarter of the 18th century that papermakers were able to manufacture paper for special purposes, such as the printing of etchings and engravings. In actual practice a broad range of papers may be encountered when studying older prints. This investigation shows that early plateprinters selected paper which suited their needs from whatever was available on the market. Ad Stijnman Intaglio printing A chronology concerning the provenance, the qualities, the colours and the formats of papers used up to 1850 This chronology was compiled to get an idea of the kind of paper used for intaglio printing up until 1850. ![]()
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