Ink, Paper & Registration
Flatbed Letterpress Anatomy
A flatbed letterpress diagram turns an industrial machine into a set of relationships. The bed holds the locked type or relief forme. The ink system prepares the…
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Close readings of impressions, alignment, pressure, and surface.
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Registration in a Two-Colour Linocut
A two-colour linocut is not simply a black-and-white print with a second ink added at the end. Each color depends on a carved surface, an inking decision, and a…
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Fons Heijnsbroek’s Linocut Still Life
The Commons record describes this 1988 linocut as an untitled abstract still life by Dutch artist Fons Heijnsbroek. Those details are enough to guide a first…
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Ethel Spowers’s Swings
Ethel Spowers's *Swings* makes motion the subject of a still image. The work is dated 1932 and identified as a linocut in Te Papa's collection record. The National…
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Ethel Spowers’s Merchants, Port Said
Ethel Spowers's *Merchants, Port Said* is a linocut dated 1932. The National Gallery of Australia records that its colour impression was printed from six blocks,…
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Ethel Spowers’s The Lonely Farm
Ethel Spowers's *The Lonely Farm* is a colour linocut dated 1933. The Australian Prints + Printmaking database records it as printed from five blocks in grey, blue,…
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Ethel Spowers’s The Plough
Ethel Spowers's *The Plough* is catalogued as a colour linocut dated 1928. Te Papa's record for the closely related image *Birds following a plough* identifies the…
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Maud Hunt Squire’s Clam Diggers
The cover file identifies Maud Hunt Squire's *Clam Diggers* as a colour woodcut dated 1917, with Mary Ryan Gallery named as the reproduction's source. Those are the…
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John Drew in Linocut
Alfred J. Frueh's *John Drew* is a color linocut dated 1915. The Library of Congress catalog describes it as a monolithic bust portrait caricature of the…
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Inking Up a Chandler & Price Press
The cover photograph records a Chandler & Price 10-by-15 press being inked up for a job. That caption captures a moment before printing: rollers and type are being…
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