DOI Heft:
No. 71 (february 1899)
DOI Artikel:Penell, Joseph: The truth about litography
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19231#0054
Studio- Talk
when really, with one or two early exceptions, all of The truth about lithography, therefore, is that a
M. Fantin-Latour's lithographs are on paper, and the drawing may be made upon paper, stone, or alumi-
fact is recorded. And what about Mr. Shannon's ? nium, or anything else you want, and so long as it
If critics, who are such purists, cannot tell unaided can be printed from a surface by chemical action
which prints are from paper and which from stone, it it is a lithograph. The only artistic difference will
proves absolutely that there is nothing to choose be- be found in the art or artlessness that appears in
tween them. The practical printer would not even the printed design. Joseph Pennell.
attempt it. Among the " pure lithographers " are
also Messrs. Whistler, Legros, Strang, and Rothen- STUDIO TAI K
stein. Mr. Whistler has made probably half-a-dozen
or a dozen lithographs on stone, a hundred or more <From our own Correspondents)
on paper ; while all the lithographs of Mr. Legros, "w" ONDON.—Although the annual prize
Mr. Strang, and Mr. Rothenstein, as far as I know, distribution to Royal Academy students
were made on paper, although I should not pretend j | cannot be said to have been a function
to decide by looking at them how they were made. j . remarkable for the extraordinary excel-
Look at the prints of these men, and it must dawn lence of the works entered in com-
upon you that each artist, according to his tempera- petition, it was at least interesting on account of
ment, can do very much
so ^'^^ ^ " '**" ^ ^ ^ ^
themselves ridiculous. cartoon for mural decoration by miss towgood
44
when really, with one or two early exceptions, all of The truth about lithography, therefore, is that a
M. Fantin-Latour's lithographs are on paper, and the drawing may be made upon paper, stone, or alumi-
fact is recorded. And what about Mr. Shannon's ? nium, or anything else you want, and so long as it
If critics, who are such purists, cannot tell unaided can be printed from a surface by chemical action
which prints are from paper and which from stone, it it is a lithograph. The only artistic difference will
proves absolutely that there is nothing to choose be- be found in the art or artlessness that appears in
tween them. The practical printer would not even the printed design. Joseph Pennell.
attempt it. Among the " pure lithographers " are
also Messrs. Whistler, Legros, Strang, and Rothen- STUDIO TAI K
stein. Mr. Whistler has made probably half-a-dozen
or a dozen lithographs on stone, a hundred or more <From our own Correspondents)
on paper ; while all the lithographs of Mr. Legros, "w" ONDON.—Although the annual prize
Mr. Strang, and Mr. Rothenstein, as far as I know, distribution to Royal Academy students
were made on paper, although I should not pretend j | cannot be said to have been a function
to decide by looking at them how they were made. j . remarkable for the extraordinary excel-
Look at the prints of these men, and it must dawn lence of the works entered in com-
upon you that each artist, according to his tempera- petition, it was at least interesting on account of
ment, can do very much
so ^'^^ ^ " '**" ^ ^ ^ ^
themselves ridiculous. cartoon for mural decoration by miss towgood
44