Metal Plate Lithography - For Artists and Draftsmen
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Metal Plate Lithography - For Artists and Draftsmen - A. C. Seward
METAL PLATE
LITHOGRAPHY
FOR ARTISTS
AND DRAFTSMEN
By C. A. SEWARD
CONTENTS
FOREWORD
PLATES
REQUISITES
WHERE TO BUY
By C. A. SEWARD MOUNTAINS AND DESERT
FOREWORD
LITHOGRAPHY is the simplest and most wonderful of all the graphic arts, and probably the most abused. That it is not understood clearly by present day artists is evidenced by their proneness to remember the Chromo Days
whenever lithography is mentioned. If they but knew it, not only as the simplest and most versatile, but also as the most autographic, of all the graphic arts, the lithograph would soon be restored to its rightful position in the print world.
This treatise was written with the idea of supplying the artist with the necessary elementary knowledge of the process with which all too few are acquainted.
The greater portion of what is herein set forth is in answer to questions asked many times. The book should serve a twofold purpose not only in providing a practical guide for the novice, but also in supplying a handy reference book containing the necessary technical information, formulas, and methods of procedure in compact form for the sophisticated worker.
I hope that the remarks contained in this humble publication may create sufficient interest in the possibilities of lithography, as a means of artistic expression, that much experimenting with the gentle art may be indulged in by my contemporaries to whom these remarks are respectfully dedicated.
NEARLY every printed thing is produced by one of three methods: from a raised surface which receives the ink, as in the case of wood blocks or printers type; from an incised surface which holds the ink until it is deposited on the paper under heavy pressure, as in the case of etchings, drypoints, engravings; or by a third method in which the printing is done neither from a raised nor an incised surface but rather from a flat surface. This process is known as lithography, or, as Senefelder at first called it, Chemical Printing,
which is what it really is.
LITHOGRAPHY
is based on the simple facts that grease has an affinity for grease and that grease repels water.
In theory, when we make a drawing with a greasy substance on stone or a grained metal plate and then wet this plate with water, the water will adhere to every part of the surface not covered by the greasy substance (grease repelling water). Now if, while the surface is still wet, we pass over it a roller charged with a greasy ink, the ink (grease) will be repelled by the wetted surface, adhering only to the greasy surface of the drawing (grease attracting grease). If we now place a sheet of paper over the plate and run it through the press, the ink will come off on the paper.
PLATES
Metal plate lithography can be easily carried on by an artist anywhere, whereas it is not always possible to do so with stone on account of its weight and the care required in preparation