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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;2manybooks, post: 3053005, member: 8267&quot;]I believe it is a type of copperplate print, as [USER=30]@antidiem[/USER] has said, using an aquatint ground. This way of preparing the plate produces the irregular squiggles you can see in the detail photo. It was probably colored by a process known as &quot;<i>á la poupée</i>&quot; (&#039;with the doll&#039;), where the printer used a bundle of cloth to dab colored inks on selected areas of the plate before printing.</p><p><br /></p><p>According to Bamber Gascoigne (<u>How to Identify Prints</u>), &quot;<i>á la poupée</i> inking was employed in the genre scenes of pretty milkmaids in cottage farmyards....which were fashionable in the late eighteenth century and which became briefly so valuable in the late nineteenth century that new prints of the same type were produced to meet the demand, using a pastiche eighteenth century style but the genuine <i>á la poupée </i>method of inking.&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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