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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;moreotherstuff, post: 10268710, member: 56&quot;]Pursuant to the technique of combining multiple plates into a single image, I have this print of The Expulsion, from Atlas historique et geographique (1714) by Claude Buy de Mornas (d. 1783).</p><p>[ATTACH=full]514694[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>From the back you can see multiple plate marks, and from the description I wrote at the time:</p><p><i>There appear to be a multitude of plate marks (to my eyes): the largest surrounds the outside of the large decorative border, another encompasses the string border immediately around the text and center illustration, a third borders the illustration itself (excluding title). It may also be that that each panel of text is a separate plate, and the title as well.</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>[ATTACH=full]514695[/ATTACH] </i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p>If correct, this image is composed of at least 6 different plates that somehow had to be marshaled together.</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s also amazing to me that the columns of text are not typeset, but hand engraved, each column being its own individual plate.&nbsp; I have encountered this on other prints as well.&nbsp; There were specialists to do this type of work, and specialists to do borders, or titles, or armorial designs. and who knows what else.&nbsp; Their names very seldom appear on the finished print.&nbsp; If you look at prints that have fancy borders, or an armorial, there&#039;s a good chance you will find secondary plate marks.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]514696[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>What drew me to this print was the head of Eve, which just struck me as being incredibly 18th century,&nbsp; It made me wonder who, in Eden, was the beautician.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]514697[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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