Linton- Life in the Collections


William James Linton:
28) Specimens of a New Process Of Engraving for Surface-Printing,
London 1861
Rossetti was very sceptical about its announced advantages, Thackeray was eager to see a result and Walter Crane reports that Ruskin had tried to get in contact with Linton unavailingly to learn more about his new technical achievement. With his advertising of A New Process Of Engraving for Surface-Printing, Linton had caused a big stir. His main intention was to free the art of wood engraving from the “slavery” of facsimile work by offering a mechanical possibility of reproduction. The prospectus displays a number of images which were reproduced with this new technique, examples “of very various styles and degrees of excellence”, among them an “experimental drawing” by Thackeray and the sketch of a dog, which had been executed by Linton’s apprentice Walter Crane. By using the New Process, the text states, “the artist is no longer at the mercy of the engraver. An engraving by the new process is necessarily an exact facsimile, even to the minute touch, of the draftsman’s work, where an artist’s manner is of any value, the new process, therefore, is infinitely superior to engraving on wood; capable also of giving greater delicacy, and very much more minuteness and elaborations.” Kerography would also be capable of doing “every thing which can be etched on steel or copper. The only limit to its use is the capability of surface-printing. For whatever can be printed from block in relief, with type or separately, by hand-press or by steam, the new process is available”. Its advantages over lithography would be: “Cheapness in printing, greater delicacy and sharpness of line, greater certainty and regularity of impression.”
In his Reminiscences, Crane takes great pain to explain the new procedure: A copper plate is overlaid with an ordinary black etching ground and coated with a layer of white wax, onto which the tracing is transferred. The design is incised through the wax and ground with an etching needle, “bitten in by acid in the same way as an etching, and then a cast taken from it, which would give the lines in relief, and this cast would be produced in hard metal, and probably electrotyped to print from in the ordinary way.”
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Reproductions of sketches by William M. Thackeray and Walter Crane (head of a dog)