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<p>[QUOTE="Bronwen, post: 564205, member: 5833"]You are right. To become a book illustration, someone had to translate the painting into a form that could be used to easily make multiples. We can not see your print at the level of detail needed to guess at how this was done for this print. An early post asks if you can see dots. An answer to this would be a start. I think it is probably an etching. Wiki gives you a summary of the types & techniques:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etching" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etching" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etching</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Bronwen, post: 564205, member: 5833"]You are right. To become a book illustration, someone had to translate the painting into a form that could be used to easily make multiples. We can not see your print at the level of detail needed to guess at how this was done for this print. An early post asks if you can see dots. An answer to this would be a start. I think it is probably an etching. Wiki gives you a summary of the types & techniques: [URL]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etching[/URL][/QUOTE]
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