1819
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
Art of the Lithograph: Toning Samples, Plate XVI is a 1819 by Alois Senefelder, a Romanticism work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
This page shows four simple black-and-white strips of shading. Each strip looks like a test of how dark or light ink can be applied. The top two are labeled in French, with one showing a lighter tone before correction and a darker one after. The bottom two strips are divided into sections with different shading effects. These samples are from a book about lithography, a way to print images using flat stones. The tiny changes in shading show how ink can be controlled to create different tones. If you like this, look up lithography next to see how it works.
Johann Alois Senefelder was a German actor and playwright who invented the printing technique of lithography in the 1790s.
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