Help-artist's signature on this sketch of a ballerina?

alynnfin · Mar 14, 2021

moreotherstuff said: ↑

I don't doubt this is a print. A drypoint as in Deborah's link. With drypoint, a needle-like stylus is used to draw the image directly on to a plate - scratch it into the plate if you will. The plate is inked and wiped off so that only the scratches retain any color. Then the plate is run through a high pressure press that squeezes the paper into the scratches to pick up the ink. The resultant image does resemble a drawing because it was freely sketched onto the plate. As someone else recently pointed out, drawing lines in this manner raises a burr that helps in catching the ink and softens the line as it goes through the press.

I think the close-ups of the title and the signature both show that the square outer edge of the image is indented. That is called a plate mark and is an artifact of the paper going through a press under high pressure.
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alynnfin · Mar 14, 2021

Thank you all very much! So it is just like the one in the link and is a drypoint print or etching. I do appreciate it very much.

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