THE PRINT BEFORE PHOTOGRAPHY

A landmark publicationbeautifully illustrated with over 300 prints from the British Museums renowned collectionwhich traces the h istory of printmaking from its earliest days until the arrival of photography.Copperplate printmaking, developed alongside Gutenberg s invention of moveable type, was a huge business employing thousands of people, and dominating image production for nearly four ce nturies across the whole of Europe. Its techniques and influence remained very stable until the nineteenth century, when this world was displaced...[Read more]