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...history of lithography, as in that of engraving and woodcut, a curious legendary role belongs to laundry. Plate engraving is supposed to have been discovered when someone threw a heap of wet linen over a steel cuirass, later found it patterned from the intaglio work on the steel. Albrecht Dürer was reputedly driven to the solace of wood blocks by his wife's demeanor after her hard day's washing. More recent and not at all apocryphal is the account handed down by Johann Nepomuk Franz Aloys Senefelder, a ragtag Bavarian actor & playwright, of the fretful...
Last week a woodcut of St. Lydwina on ice, probably the earliest skating print in existence, was a feature of an exhibition of sporting prints and paintings at Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum. If the Museum staff was only vaguely familiar with sporting art, this was not to its credit. Besides the skating woodcut, there were assembled a Rembrandt etching of a tired golfer, another skating scene by Rowlandson, etchings by Goya, five fine bronzes by Degas, a Hogarth cockfight, lithographs by George Wesley Bellows. A large proportion of the other sporting pictures were of horses, hounds and hunting. More...
...Simpson's home town, amazed citizens of high & low degree gaped last fortnight at what appeared to be the title page of a book which any Baltimorean would pay high to read. Title: ALONG THE RIVIERA, A True and Thrilling Love Story, by Edward Cornwall. An archaic-looking woodcut showed a British sea captain relaxing under a palm tree with a Tahitian belle, while another seaman peered off a cliff through a spyglass. Heading: "George VI Looking Over His Vast Empire WITH MR. SIMPSON AT SEA And the Prime Minister Turning His Back and Howling." Publisher was billed...
...edition, 1647, of the plays of Beaumont and Fletcher, a volume belonging originally to the Earl of Bridgewater, elder brother to Milton's Comus; a copy of a 1640 edition of Shakespeare's Poems in the original calf binding; a 1577 edition of Hollinshed's Chronicles, opened to a woodcut of the meeting between Macbeth and Banquo and the three witches; and the first collected edition of Jonson's Discoveries with attention drawn to Johnson's famous remark that...
...Dunster House Bookshop now has on show finely bound books of the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries, from collections of Augustan poets to the woodcut books of Clare Leighton...