ANTIQUE LEHNERT & LANDROCK HELIOGRAVURE COPPER PLATE PHOTO #7005 NAPOLI, ITALY

-- DESCRIPTION: THIS IS AN ANTIQUE SEPIA PLATE PHOTOGRAPH

-- IT IS TITLED "NAPOLI - CREPUSCOLO ALL VILLA COMUNALE"

-- PRODUCED BY LEHNERT & LANDROCK

-- LEHNERT & LANDROCK WAS A PHOTOGRAPHIC STUDIO RUN BY RUDOLF FRANZ LEHNERT AND ERNST HEINRICH LANDROCK ACTIVE IN TUNISIA AND EGYPT IN THE EARLY 20TH CENTURY, NOTED FOR PRODUCING ORIENTALIST IMAGES. 

-- RUDOLF FRANZ LEHNERT AND ERNST HEINRICH LANDROCK PRODUCED IMAGES OF NORTH AFRICAN PEOPLE, LANDSCAPES, AND ARCHITECTURE FOR A PRIMARILY EUROPEAN AUDIENCE. 

-- THESE IMAGES WERE MAINLY DISTRIBUTED IN MONOGRAPHS, THOUGH ALSO AS ORIGINAL PRINTS, PHOTOGRAVURES, AND LITHOGRAPHIC POSTCARDS.

-- A HELIOGRAVURE IS A PHOTOGRAPHIC PRINTING PROCESS MADE UP OF TWO STEPS: A PHOTOCHEMICAL PROCESS THAT CREATES THE INTAGLIO SURFACE WHERE THE PHOTOGRAPHIC IMAGE IS ETCHED INTO A COPPER PLATE. THE COPPER PLATE IS USED TO PRINT THE IMAGE ONTO ETCHING PAPER USING INKS. THE RESULTING IMAGE IS A HIGH-QUALITY PHOTOGRAPH WITH WARM RICH SEPIA TONES.

-- CONDITION: VERY GOOD. THIS IS AN ANTIQUE ITEM AND IT HAS SOME FAINT FOXING, CORNER BUMPS AND OVERALL WEAR AS SHOWN IN OUR LAST FEW PHOTOS. PLEASE SEE ALL OF OUR DETAILED PHOTOS, THANK YOU!

-- APPROXIMATE DIMENSIONS
-- 12" X 9-1/2"


-- LOC: BOOK1 FOLDER 17A
-- INV#: ART-199D

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