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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kardinalisimo, post: 192541, member: 118&quot;]Took it out of the frame. Thick paper, about 18 3/4&quot; X 26&quot; but it appears to have been trimmed.</p><p>The original prints are supposed to be &quot;line block prints&quot;. Never heard that term before:</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;The artist’s drawing was photographed and a reverse photographic negative was contact-printed onto a photosensitised metal plate. Etching by acid was used to eat away the white areas of the design and the plate was then mounted on a wooden block, inked and printed.&nbsp; Like a woodcut, a line block could be printed in the same press as a book’s text.</p><p>For the artist this technique brought considerable advantages, not least the fact that a drawing need not be of the same dimensions as the space it was destined to occupy on the printed page, but could be made of any size and later reduced or enlarged photographically&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I just can&#039;t explain why am I missing some details?</p><p><img src="http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g268/snmka/1b_2.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g268/snmka/5_12.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g268/snmka/6_11.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g268/snmka/COMPARE2.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g268/snmka/COMPARE1.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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