Rex Wailes Collection. Printing blocks in the Rex Wailes Collection
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| Authors & editors | |
| Publisher | Milling & Grain |
| Year of publication | 2020 March |
| Languages | |
| Medium | Digital |
| Edition | 1 |
| Topics | Arts, culture and heritage > Design, Iconography & stamps |
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| Scope & content | In these days of digital communication, it is sometimes a surprise to realise how time-consuming it used to be to prepare papers for publication. As Rex Wailes was a prolific author, we now have in our possession a large number of printing blocks for the illustrations he used. The blocks were engraved as a negative image and when caught in certain lights they show up very clearly. Close inspection of an individual block shows how the image was captured as small dots, usually on a zinc or copper surface... Read more. |
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