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<p>[QUOTE="moreotherstuff, post: 4330216, member: 56"]I suspect it's a fashion thing as much as anything else. A lot of old prints are trimmed inside the plate mark, so I think there was a time when seeing a plate mark was considered unfashionable and a reserve around the image became necessary. It seems to me that a lot of old master prints have been trimmed right to the edges of the image and I can't see a reason for that other than to get rid of the plate mark. Maybe people wanted to present their prints as drawings, and the plate mark interfered with that.</p><p><br /></p><p>Of course, if a print is going to have fancy borders and/or titles and dedications and such, room needs to be left to accommodate them.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="moreotherstuff, post: 4330216, member: 56"]I suspect it's a fashion thing as much as anything else. A lot of old prints are trimmed inside the plate mark, so I think there was a time when seeing a plate mark was considered unfashionable and a reserve around the image became necessary. It seems to me that a lot of old master prints have been trimmed right to the edges of the image and I can't see a reason for that other than to get rid of the plate mark. Maybe people wanted to present their prints as drawings, and the plate mark interfered with that. Of course, if a print is going to have fancy borders and/or titles and dedications and such, room needs to be left to accommodate them.[/QUOTE]
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