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<p>[QUOTE="Potteryplease, post: 3128968, member: 16407"]Hello everyone. I have a lot of 27 old looking pictures. They seem to be based on paintings, and I believe they may be photogravures. I've researched a bit about what are and are not photogravures, and I think these fit the criteria (the rough surface paper is smooth / flat where the plate was impressed, there are some variations between duplicates of the same image, the paper is indented...). Many of them seem to be nature scenes from the American West. Some of the artist signatures are S. T. Robinson, W. Keith, Geo Spiel, etc).</p><p><br /></p><p>My questions are if these are in fact photogravures, are they common, and how might they have come together? Was there a set, a book, something else? The paper on them all seems the same. Some of the images seem associated with a John Muir book, but others are not.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]294477[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]294478[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]294479[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]294480[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]294481[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]294482[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Thank you for any help![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Potteryplease, post: 3128968, member: 16407"]Hello everyone. I have a lot of 27 old looking pictures. They seem to be based on paintings, and I believe they may be photogravures. I've researched a bit about what are and are not photogravures, and I think these fit the criteria (the rough surface paper is smooth / flat where the plate was impressed, there are some variations between duplicates of the same image, the paper is indented...). Many of them seem to be nature scenes from the American West. Some of the artist signatures are S. T. Robinson, W. Keith, Geo Spiel, etc). My questions are if these are in fact photogravures, are they common, and how might they have come together? Was there a set, a book, something else? The paper on them all seems the same. Some of the images seem associated with a John Muir book, but others are not. [ATTACH=full]294477[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]294478[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]294479[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]294480[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]294481[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]294482[/ATTACH] Thank you for any help![/QUOTE]
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