DOI Heft:
No. 13 (April, 1894)
DOI Artikel:Rothenstein, William: Some remarks on artistic lithography
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.17190#0031
Artistic Lithography
charming example of lithography carried
out in this manner.
For transferring to stone, the drawing
should be made with a rather hard chalk
on the special paper which is prepared
with a grained surface. This is mechani-
cally transferred to stone, from which
impressions are taken in the ordinary
way. An idea has gone abroad that
work in this manner is not lithography,
but that is quite absurd; for the actual,
particles of chalk put by the artist upon
the paper are transferred directly to the
stone, where they are afterwards treated
in the same manner as the drawing would
have been had it been actually made on
the stone. The portability and conveni-
ence of the paper is unquestionable ; the
avoidance of all need of reversing is a dis-
tinct further advantage. Its possibilities
can be judged by those who saw the
six beautiful drawings exhibited by Mr.
Whistler lately at the Grafton Gallery, all
of which were done on transfer-paper.
To conclude with a word of advice
from a practical lithographer, with regard
to the etching which follows the drawing,
and the subsequent printing: the artist
FROM A LITHOGRAPH
PRTJT
duccd, shows the process used in a very
successful manner — and many others
have made much use of litho-tint in their
works, whilst a few years since Mr. j/BP&X f3tr:
Whistler produced some half-dozen most
beautiful examples. Isabey, one of the
greatest artists that lithography has known,
so completely mastered these three pro-
cesses, that he frequently used them
together on the same drawing with the
happiest results—this being markedly the
case in the lithograph here reproduced.
The stump has been largely used on
the buildings and sky, and litho-tint in
the foreground, the whole drawing being
then finished with the chalk point and
scraper. But even when successfully
done, these two last processes yield bu
a limited number of fine impressions.
Besides these earlier processes, we
have now another, for which the drawing
]:j:7m.z^^s^: hiw BY,osEp;rK
in the present number, which offers
charming example of lithography carried
out in this manner.
For transferring to stone, the drawing
should be made with a rather hard chalk
on the special paper which is prepared
with a grained surface. This is mechani-
cally transferred to stone, from which
impressions are taken in the ordinary
way. An idea has gone abroad that
work in this manner is not lithography,
but that is quite absurd; for the actual,
particles of chalk put by the artist upon
the paper are transferred directly to the
stone, where they are afterwards treated
in the same manner as the drawing would
have been had it been actually made on
the stone. The portability and conveni-
ence of the paper is unquestionable ; the
avoidance of all need of reversing is a dis-
tinct further advantage. Its possibilities
can be judged by those who saw the
six beautiful drawings exhibited by Mr.
Whistler lately at the Grafton Gallery, all
of which were done on transfer-paper.
To conclude with a word of advice
from a practical lithographer, with regard
to the etching which follows the drawing,
and the subsequent printing: the artist
FROM A LITHOGRAPH
PRTJT
duccd, shows the process used in a very
successful manner — and many others
have made much use of litho-tint in their
works, whilst a few years since Mr. j/BP&X f3tr:
Whistler produced some half-dozen most
beautiful examples. Isabey, one of the
greatest artists that lithography has known,
so completely mastered these three pro-
cesses, that he frequently used them
together on the same drawing with the
happiest results—this being markedly the
case in the lithograph here reproduced.
The stump has been largely used on
the buildings and sky, and litho-tint in
the foreground, the whole drawing being
then finished with the chalk point and
scraper. But even when successfully
done, these two last processes yield bu
a limited number of fine impressions.
Besides these earlier processes, we
have now another, for which the drawing
]:j:7m.z^^s^: hiw BY,osEp;rK
in the present number, which offers