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Wednesday, February 24, 16

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Thomas Cotterell, letterforms, c. 1765


Robert Thorne, fat-face types, 1821


Robert Thorne, Egyptian type designs, 1821A variation on slab serif fonts


V. Figgins, 1815One of the first of the 3-dimensional typefaces, wildly popular at that time


Vincent Figgins, Antique, c.1815Antique or Egyptian type has bold, slab-like rectangular serifs, an even line weight and shorter ascenders and descenders.


Robert Besley (designer, with Thorowgood)Early Clarendon, 1845


Tuscan typefaces with ornamental serifs


Woods and Sharwoods, ornamental letters, 1838-42


Vincent Figgins, two-line Great Primer sans serif, 1832, from Figgin’s Specimens of Printing Types


Handbill for an excursion train, 1876Compositors used heavier letters for the initials of important words. Condensed and extended faces are combined to form justified type.


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Hatch Show Print, Nashville, TNWednesday, February 24, 16

The first steam-powered cylinder press, 1814. Koenig’s invention made printing much faster and less expensive.


Otto Mergenthaler demonstrates the Linotype, the first line-casting keyboard typesetter, 1886


Mergenthaler’s Model 5 Linotype with keyboards and matrixes available in over one thousand languages.


Joseph Niepce, the first photograph from nature, 1826.Wednesday, February 24, 16

Louis Jacques Daguerre, Paris Boulevard, 1839. The slow exposure could only capture static objects.


Attributed to Matthew Brady, “Freedmen on the Canal Bank at Richmond,” 1865

is turned into a line drawing by John MacDonald for print reproduction.


Matthew Brady, Dunker Church and the Dead, 1862Visual documentation of wartime horrors took on

a new realism with photography.Wednesday, February 24, 16

Experimental photoengraving, first halftone printing plate to reproduce a photograph in a newspaper, 1880


The printed photograph as it appeared


Advertisement for the Kodak camera, c. 1889. George Eastman’s camera that was “simple enough for anyone who can wind a watch” played a major role in making photography “every person’s artform.”


William Henry Fox Talbot, cameraless shadow picture (photogram), 1839


Pages from Talbot’s The Pencil of Nature, 1844, This was the first book to be illustrated with photographs, photograms mounted onto the printed page.


David Hill’s portrait of Rev. Thomas H. Jones, 1845.Hill brings a painter’s understanding of light and shadow to the new medium of photography.


Photograph by Julia Margaret Cameron, Sir John Herschel, 1867Cameron was interested in capturing the inner essence of her subjects


Eadweard Muybridge, The Horse in Motion, 1883Wednesday, February 24, 16

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Joseph Morse, multicolored woodcut poster, 1856, (8.5 x 11 feet)Wednesday, February 24, 16

The Riverside Print Co. of Milwaukee, poster for C.W. Parker Co. Carry-Us-All portable carousels


Our Navy, a complex booklet printed by Schumacher & Ettlinger, 1888


With chromolithography, type is free to curve and overlap images


Package designs chromolithographed on tins for food and tobacco products used bright,

flat colors and elaborate lettering.Wednesday, February 24, 16

Walter Crane, page from Walter Crane’s Absurd ABCLarge letterforms are integrated with the imagery


Randolph Caldecott, illustration for Hey Diddle Diddle, c. 1880


Kate Greenaway, page from Under the Window, 1879


Poster advertisingHarper’s Magazine, 1883


Cover for Harper’s Weekly, 1864. Engraved from a journalist’s sketch, this cover is a forerunner of newsmagazine coverage of current events.


Trademark for Moss Engraving Co., 1872. Graphic complexity and slogans often

embellished Victorian trademarks.Wednesday, February 24, 16

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