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
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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graving without copying. This quotation puts the matter very clearly. TheChinese paintings were so well done, in most cases,that they gave the idea of engravings on porcelain.If they gave that impression, surely thoughtful menwould be set thinking out a scheme of transfer, orsomething of the kind, as the candid and impartialFrenchman (Rouquet) hath it, as quoted above. In going through the patent rolls at ManchesterPublic Library, the idea struck me that the patentsfor engravings indicated how the artistic Englishmen,of the early seventeenth century even, were feelingtheir way to it. Carefully consider the following Hst:— The first Patent granted, under the first PatentsAct, appears to be dated 2nd March, 1617, althoughnot for Engravings. Patents Granted re Engravings, &c. :— 1st. 1617—To Rapburn & Burgess forengraving and printing maps, plans, &c. 2nd. 1617—From 5th May. To NicholasHillyard for engraving and printing portraits ofthe Royal Family 40 Plate No. XIII.
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Fig. a 28. BOWL, CREAM WARE, BLACK PRINT. Wedgwood & Co. Origin. Know ye, we grant license for 12 years . . .to invent, make, grave and ymprint any picture or pictures of our image as well on paper, parchment, as on any other thing orthings . . . and sett up any presse or otherinstrument . . . for the imprynting of ourpictures, &c. N.B.—The any other thing seems to point the way tothe transfer process. It shows at all events that Hillyard—avery able artist—had something else than paper or parchmentin his mind. 3rd. 1692—Wm. Bayley for printing woollenhangings. 4th. 1715—Peter Dubison for printingcaHcos. 5th. 1719—Le Blon for multiplying pic-tures, &c. 6th. 1731—Samuel Pope for marbHng, &c. — 1756—Sadler & Green for transferprinting (but not enrolled). 7th. 1759—Bedford for transferring en-gravings to metallic substances, &c. All these facts point to the conclusion that thework of transferring engravings to enamels or porcelainwas in the air,

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