Busacca Gallery

Black and white antique copper etching of a figure mythology print drawing. Complete and authentic universal work. A massive folio volume of pages on hand made paper, this was from a popular set of French prints, of ancient Roman, or Greek, mythology figural works, editions unknown in the years from the 1700s. These images appear in many forms. These are a set of complete universal figural geography. Engraved for some kind of geographical dictionary, engraved plus margins with full plate marks. unmounted . Hard to find, these are for the world print collector. I have a number of them for sale within this collection. Copyright did not really exist at this time so many images can have various forms but within a very narrow time frame making exact attribution date difficult.

Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engraving

Engraving is the practice of incising a design onto a hard, flat surface, by cutting grooves into it. The result may be a decorated object in itself, as when silver, gold or steel are engraved, or may provide an intaglio printing plate, of copper or another metal, for printing images on paper, which are called engravings. Engraving was a historically important method of producing images on paper, both in artistic printmaking, and also for commercial reproductions and illustrations for books and magazines. It has long been replaced by photography in its commercial applications and, partly because of the difficulty of learning the technique, is much less common in printmaking, where it has been largely replaced by etching and other techniques. Other terms often used for engravings are copper-plate engraving and Line engraving. These should all mean exactly the same, but especially in the past were often used very loosely to cover several printmaking techniques, so that many so-called engravings were in fact produced by totally different techniques, such as etching.