Established 1978
Just Paintings
Kent's best stocked gallery
Engravings 1
Engraving is a term that covers all methods of producing
hand produced prints. Excluded are colour offset prints (virtually
all modern prints and limited editions).
There are two
main types of plates, which are relief and intaglio. The relief process
is usually on hard wood blocks and involves the design being cut away
to leave the raised design to be inked and pressed on to the paper.
The intaglio process involves indentations in the surface of a smooth
metal plate to retain ink and is then printed on slightly damp paper
under pressure.
There
are many ways the indentations can be made into a plate. The two main
methods are engraving and etching. Engraving involves using a graving
tool to remove a thin sliver of metal to create a line in
the plate. Etching is totally different, as the plate surface
has been sealed with shellac before the design is then scratched into
the shellac, then the plate is immersed into an acid bath. In
both cases the density of the line depends on the width of the
indentation.
Canterbury Perspective 11¼"x6½" copper eng c1775
Flute Player 9½"x8" steel eng 1855
The Old Bakery,
Wrotham
Road,
Meopham,
Gravesend DA13 0QB,
Kent, UK.
Tel: 01474 813813
Monday to
Friday
9.30 till 5.00
Sunday 10 till 4.00
(except Bank Holiday weekends)
The engravings shown on this page are available
for sale.
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