Benday Engraving

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“The Benday process, so called, is the use of mechanical appliances for adding lines or stipples to either drawings or plates. Its use is very extensive in the making of tint blocks or color work, used either in connection with line or half-tone key plates.” -Hill, 1921

Keywords

printing, horn, print, hay, little boy blue, nursery rhyme, dots, printmaking, types of engraving, Benday engraving, pointillism

Galleries

Individual Boys, Miscellaneous Prints

Source

Hill, Henry Chase The Wonder Book of Knowledge (Philadelphia, PA: John C. Winston Company, 1921)

Downloads

TIFF (full resolution)

2214×2400, 1.6 MiB

Large GIF

944×1024, 241.6 KiB

Medium GIF

590×640, 123.5 KiB

Small GIF

295×320, 40.3 KiB