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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t the transfer print matter was afrequent subject of conversation and much speculationwas indulged in as to a process that would succeed.Doubtless, trials were made, and the book platefailures experienced there. Failure is the path tosuccess very often if perseverance backs it; Ravenetsdeeper cut in the copper may have solved the problemand, voilct! the whole secret was out. It would notsurprise that circle of artist-engravers much; it wouldbe taken as a matter of course. Ravenet was artisticand not commercial! He was a Frenchman andprobably not acquainted with our patent laws. Hehad no ambition to go into a business speculationfounded on the displacement of Dutch tiles. It wasnot in his line, which was line-engraving of animproved kind. All he wanted was a man likeJanssen to attend to the commercial element, and hewould conduct the artistic section. Very likely itnever occurred to him that there was anything out ofthe usual course of his own art that warranted such a 48 Plate No. XV.
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Fig. ass. SUPPER SET, EARTHENWARE. BLUE PRINT.Herculaneum. Origin. thing as a patent law to protect it. Under all thesecircumstances and in the absence of positive proof ofany particular individual, or body of men, havingintroduced the transfer print at Battersea, it is areasonable thing to say that Ravenet was the mostlikely person with whom it originated. Of course,the possibilities of the case, as described above, arenot tabled as absolute truisms. We are brought to thecrucial question of—Who is the man ? All the factsthat can be gathered, so far, about Ravenet arestated, and they cannot be refuted. The questionis—How far do they carry us in the line whichhas been taken in stating circumstantially that hewas, most probably, the man we are looking for? Noone will be more pleased than myself if the real, bonafide Simon Pure can be found—even supposing thathe turns out to be another than Ravenet. Meantime,until that event takes place, it is submitted, mostrespectfully, that he w

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