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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;moreotherstuff, post: 303242, member: 56&quot;]I showed this image before:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]99258[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s from La Fontaine&#039;s Fables.&nbsp; The original drawing, which I&#039;ve never seen, was by Jean Baptiste Oudry.&nbsp; The plate was enrgaved by Louis-Claude Legrand.&nbsp; But between Oudry and Legrand was a third artist: Charles Nicolas Cochin. Cochin re-drew Oudry&#039;s drawing so that Legrand could engrave it.&nbsp; I haven&#039;t seen Cochin&#039;s drawing either, but I imagine it would have been a mirror image of Oudry&#039;s and en grisaille (monochrome) to facilitate the engraving.</p><p><br /></p><p>If the maker of an intaglio print was to copy art verbatim onto a plate, then the image would be mirrored when printed.&nbsp; With an intaglio print, for the image orientation to be correct, the plate must be worked with its reverse.&nbsp; Makes it a lot easier for the engraver if he has an image at hand that is oriented to the plate and rendered in a gray scale.</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s my understanding that the Victorian Gustave Dore mostly produced monochromatic pen and ink and ink wash drawings that were farmed out to firms like the Brothers Dalziel for engraving.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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