Born at Margate in 1821, he was early in life apprenticed to a copperplate engraver in Bedfordbury.
It is illustrated for the first time with fifty newly engraved copperplate portraits of the leading and best known actors and actresses, all of which are printed as India proofs.
A shaft, windlass, or roller, worked by levers at opposite ends, as in thecopperplate printing press.
A black pigment used in copperplate printing, prepared by burning vine twigs, the lees of wine, etc.
This copperplate was rescued in 1867 from the brazier’s pot by the late Thomas H.
In 1570 Abraham Ortelius published at Antwerp the first edition of his celebrated Theatrum orbis terrarum, containing fifty-three copperplate maps, engraved by Hogenberg.
Engraving) Defn: A copperplate produced by the method of galvanography; also, a picture printed from such a plate.
Thomas Bewick, who revived the art of wood engraving in England, was apprenticed to Ralph Beilby, as a copperplate engraver, in 1767.
In the Department of the Navy: In the Hydrographic Office: Engravers, copperplate printers, printers' apprentices.
Mr. Latham was nervously shuffling his unopened personal correspondence when he came upon it--a formal white square envelope, directed by that same copperplate hand which had directed the boxes.
It was neatly tied with thin scarlet twine, and innocent of markings except for the superscription in a precise, copperplate hand, and the smudge of the postmark across the ten-cent stamp in the upper right-hand corner.
And meanwhile the heads of the five greatest jewel houses in New York were assiduous in their search for that copperplate superscription in their daily mail.
A view of Louisburg in North America, taken from near the light-house, when that city was besieged in 1758, is the title of a contemporary copperplate engraving published by Jefferys.
Jefferys also published in copperplate A view of the landing of the New England forces in the expedition against Cape Breton, 1745.
Behind Judge Peters's chair was William Penn's portrait, painted in oil, and under that was a copperplate of his well known treaty with the Indians.
During the same period the English school had been making rapid strides in the other branches of copperplate engraving, line, stipple, and etching.
Published in 1540 a book called "The Birth of Mankind," illustrated by copperplate engravings.
The crossing of lines to which the engraver on copperplate resorts is especially laborious to the engraver in wood, and after all his toil does not give any desirable effect which would not have resulted from other methods of work.
But if it shall prove that the character of the line proper to copperplate is also proper to wood, it may be looked on as certain that the line-arrangement proper to the former material can never be rationally used for the latter.
I called first on the Livery Street man, whose establishment was just outside Snow Hill station, and found him looking at a queer copperplate impression which lay on the counter before him.
I told him that I thought I was on the track of a little bit of business in his line and I took him back into the office of the copperplate printer and introduced him.
In 1794 the New York Magazine (May) gave as from an original painting a copperplate engraving, of which a fac-simile is given on another page.
A rude contemporary copperplate print, by Norman, appeared in the Boston ed.
From the copperplate in his Memoirs of American Revolution, on far as it related to States of N.
There is a rude copperplate engraving of the burning town, by Norman, in the Boston ed.
After a copperplate engraving of a picture by Bonneville.
Revere also engraved a largecopperplate of the same event, which is given in heliotype fac-simile, on different scales, in the Boston Evacuation Memorial (p.
These, afterwards united in one volume, were unique in their method of production; indeed, they do not perhaps strictly come within the category of what is generally understood to be copperplate engraving.
Besides copperplate and wood, there are many processes which have been and are still employed for book-illustrations, although the brief limits of this chapter make any account of them impossible.
These are all pictures which in lithograph and copperplate engraving once flooded all Germany and enraptured the public at exhibitions.
Immediately upon entering, the little gentleman had become absorbed in looking at the copperplate engravings and busts, and, seemingly, had forgotten the cause of his visit.
But we must pause for a moment to describe that apartment, and to give the reader some idea of the inmates of the house to which we have introduced him.
Merciful heavens, what a city of deceit and imposture is this!
He turned from the scullery, and was rushing up the stone steps in pursuance of his humane intention, when he suddenly came in violent contact with a person who was descending the same stairs.
The hump-back and Katherine had already left the room in obedience to the command of Smithers.
Every soul there has sworn a hundred times during the day that he hasn't tasted food for forty-eight hours, and will repeat the same story to-morrow.
Richard, painfully excited by the strange details which he had just heard.
Ain't the morbid feelings, as the press calls 'em, as powerful as ever?
Why, then, does she interfere between me and Gibbet?
Yes, sir; and when I said that you had not been home all night, she appeared quite surprised," continued the housekeeper.
The lad was still crying, and his father was in the midst of sundry fearful anathemas, levelled against what he called his son's cowardice, when a knock was heard at the door of the loft.
No—no, Mrs. Kenrick: I shall be quite well in the morning.
So astounded was Markham by this information, that for some moments he was unable to utter a word.
