A Closer Look: 19th-Century impressions in color

Drawing on the extensive print collection of the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, this lecture will trace the technical and aesthetic changes in color printmaking that took place over the course of the 19th century. From early methods of hand coloring engravings to the revival of etching to the explosion of multi-plate chromolithography, developments in printing color transformed the visual landscape of the modern world. These experim...