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Plate 3 Mariot, Emile  (Austrian, 1825-1891)

Emil Mariot 1867 "heliogravure" proccess.. "A photographic gelatin relief was transferred to a silver-surfaced copper plate, whereon an intaglio printing surface was produced by photogalvanography." (Mertle pg. 23) The process may have also been used for photographs as this one example exists. [1]

This book is a history of Photogalvanography by Pretsch, with full instructions and contemporary uses as well as discussion of other modifications, such as Mariot’s. Two samples of Mariot’s process, one a photogravure plate produced in 1869 and a photogravure portrait of Pretsch, 2 Photogalvanographs from Pretsch plates, one intaglio, one relief (both art), 2 Mariot Photo-Galvanogravures, one of scenery from 1869, one a map, 3 half-tones by Husnik, one from art, 2 from life.

Reproduced / Exhibited

Hanson, David A. Checklist of Photomechanical Processes and Printing, 1825-1910. , 2017. p. 88.

References

[1] Hanson, David A. Checklist of Photomechanical Processes and Printing, 1825-1910. , 2017. p. 88.

Volkmer, Ottomar. Die Photo-Galvanographie Zur Herstellung Von Kupferdruck Und Buchdruckplatten: Nebst Den Dazu Nöthigen Vor Und Nebenarbeiten. Halle a.S: W. Knapp, 1894.