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Pre-photographic

Intaglio
Planographic
Relief

Photomechanical

Collotype
Letterpress
Offset Lithography
Photogravure
Rotogravure
Woodburytype

Photographic

Albumen
Ambrotype
Bromoil
Bromoil Transfer
Carbon
Carbro
Chromogenic
Collodion POP
Cyanotype
Daguerreotype
Direct Carbon (Fresson)
Dye Imbibition
Gelatin Dry Plate
Gelatin POP
Gum Dichromate
Instant (Diffusion Transfer)
Instant (Dye Diffusion Transfer)
Instant (Internal Dye Diffusion Transfer)
Matte Collodion
Platinum
Salted Paper
Screen Plate
Silver Dye Bleach
Silver Gelatin DOP
Tintype
Wet Plate Collodion

Digital

Electrophotography
Inkjet
Thermal

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Notes on this view:

This print is a transfer lithograph of a steel engraving. In transfer lithography, the image is not drawn directly onto the stone but drawn or printed onto specialized transfer paper. The paper is placed face down on the stone and the image chemically transferred to the stone’s surface, defining the ink-receiving and ink-repellent areas characteristic of a lithographic printing surface. Though transfer lithography saw its greatest use in the second half of the 19th century, the inventor of lithography Senenfelder said in his original 1818 treatise he thought possibility of transfer was the “most important part of his discovery”.