Identifier: transferprinting00turn (find matches)
Title: Transfer printing on enamels, porcelain and pottery : its origin and development in the United Kingdom
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Turner, William, -1643
Subjects: Transfer-printing Pottery Enameled ware
Publisher: London : Chapman and Hall New York : Keramic Studio Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
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the past and the present modeof bat printing on porcelain. The foundation of the system was stippleengraving, that is by using a fine steel point oretching needle on the waxed plate, and a specialgraver on the copper. Short lines were also madebut usually as subsidiary to the stipple or dots. Therewas an old form of stipple employed as far back asthe early 16th century by Durer, Van Leyden, etc.,when even the mallet and punch were used. But themodern style was invented by, or at least attributedto, Jean Charles Fran9ois—a French engraver(1717- 1783). It was introduced into England byWilliam Wynne Ryland, on his return from study inFrance, about 1760-1. The dictionary of NationalBiography states that he carried it (stipple, or thechalk or dotted manner of engraving) to a higherdegree of perfection. But it was Bartolozzi (1727-1815)who really gave it so much impetus in England. Hearrived in London in the year 1764. Bat printing, * That is stipple more especially. 96 Plate No. XXXVII.
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Fig. D 2. CREAM JUG, PORCELAIN, BLUE PRINTBristol. The Bat Print. being an adaptation from stipple engraving, could nothave been practised before 1761 in England. Probably it was not in use till after Bartolozzisadvent, but before 1770, because aquatint, which is amodification of stipple, was in use in 1773, and musthave been imported from France previously. RobertHancock left Worcester some time during the year1774. He was a line engraver of established reputa-tion. He was then 43 years old, and not likely toturn to the new fad with anything Hke zest. Whothe man was that introduced it there we do not know.But next year, singularly enough, we find at Cobridge,Staffs., William Davis, from Worcester, was batprinting for William Adams of that ilk. The nexttrace is in or about 1777, at Mr. Baddeleys, ofShelton, who employed a person named Harry Bakeras a bat printer. We find that it was used at theHerculaneum factory, near Liverpool, in the shape ofa blue printed punch bowl done by bat pr

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