[Halftone illustrations from photographs in Pagoda shadows]

Item Information

Title:
[Halftone illustrations from photographs in Pagoda shadows]
Description:
"12 half-tone illustrations...from photographs of life in China. Crosscup and West, Philadelphia, did the half-tones using Ives' first patent. This publication is the first of the Ives process books to incorporate the half-tones with the text. The prints are on soft paper as at this point the use of calendered paper was not realized to be far superior."--Hanson Collection catalog, p. 77
Contributor:
Fielde, Adele M. (Adele Marion), 1839-1916. Pagoda shadows, studies from life in China
Contributor:
Cook, Joseph, 1838-1901
Contributor:
Ives, Frederic Eugene, 1856-1937
Contributor:
Crosscup & West
Date:
1884
Format:
Photographs
Genre:
Halftones
Relief halftones
Location:
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library
Collection (local):
David A. Hanson Collection of the History of Photomechanical Reproduction
Subjects:
China--Social life and customs
China
Ethnology--China
Places:
China
Extent:
12 photomechanical prints : halftones ; 18 x 11 cm. + 1 cover
Link to Item:
http://maca.contentdm.oclc.org/u?/p1325coll1,1067
Terms of Use:
No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.
Publisher:
Boston : W. G. Corthell, 1884
Language:
English
Notes:
Forms part of the David A. Hanson Collection of the History of Photomechanical Reproduction
In: Pagoda shadows : studies from life in China / by Adele M. Fielde ; introduction by Joseph Cook. Boston : W. G. Corthell, 1884 -- Title supplied by cataloger
Identifier:
D.A.H.Cat., 1884:4
NE2698 C951p