Advertisement for John Swain & Son, Photo Process Engravers in "The British Printer"
19th century
Medium
Commercial lithograph
Dimensions
Sheet: 10 7/8 × 8 1/16 in. (27.6 × 20.4 cm)
Classification
Ephemera|Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1966
Accession Number
66.630.7
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
Art Historical Context
This 19th-century commercial lithograph served as an advertisement for John Swain & Son, a firm specializing in process engraving, and originally in the trade journal *The British Printer Created anonymously by a British artist, piece exemplifies the era’s growing intersection of and industry, where lithography allowed for efficient, colorful reproduction of promotional materials that printers, publishers, and advertisers across Britain. Photo process engraving represented a significant advance, gradually replacing labor-intensive wood engravings with photographic methods that offered greater...