Detail View: RIT CARY GRAPHIC ARTS COLLECTION: Alois Senefelder and Lithography

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Identifier: 
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Title: 
Alois Senefelder and Lithography
Creator: 
Thom, Robert A., 1915-1979
Subject: 
Senefelder, Alois, 1771-1834
Subject: 
Lithography - 19th century
Subject: 
Printing presses - History
Subject: 
Printers - Germany
Summary: 
Near the close of the century, a young Bavarian playwright named Alois Senefelder sought a method of printing his own plays. His first efforts were engraved and etched on copper and printed on a makeshift intaglio press. The high cost of copper led Senefelder to experimentation with limestone slate. In 1796, a happy accident occurred. Having no paper immediately at hand, Senefelder wrote out an urgently needed laundry list on a polished piece of stone with a greasy ink mixture. Curiosity led him to the discovery that it was not necessary for the printing surface to be raised in the usual manner. The greasy image surrounded by the water-attracting stone surface accepted ink, while the dampened part of the stone rejected it. Printing from a plane or level surface, of lithography as we know it was born. Pursuing his discovery, Senefelder succeeded in adapting his process to metal plates by 1803.
Publisher: 
Kimberly-Clark Corporation
Digital Publisher: 
Rochester Institute of Technology - RIT Libraries - Cary Graphic Arts Collection
Contributor: 
Kimberly-Clark Corporation
Date of Original: 
1966 approximate
Date of Digitization: 
2002-04-08
Broad Type: 
still image
Specific Type: 
oil paintings
Digital File Format: 
jpeg
Physical Format: 
oil on canvas
Dimensions of Original: 
71.12 x 91.44 cm
Language: 
English
Original Item Location: 
csc018
Library Collection: 
Graphic Communications Through the Ages
Digital Project: 
2019_0037_kimberlyclark
Catalog Record: 
https://albert.rit.edu/record=b2723660~S3
Place: 
Germany - Munich
Rights: 
RIT Libraries makes materials from its collections available for educational and research purposes pursuant to U.S. Copyright Law. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. It is your responsibility to obtain permission from the copyright holder to publish or reproduce images in print or electronic form.
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