- Subject
- Print Collection
- Item type
- Object
- Makers
- George Baxter
- Provenance
- Presented by Frank Manasek in 2000.
- Primary inscriptions
- Plate 9. Drawn by Isaac Frost. Engraved by W.P. Clubb & Son 7 Charterhouse Street. System According to the Holy Scriptures. Printed in Oil Colours by G. Baxter, Patentee, 11 Northampton Square.
- Object type
- Dimensions
- Height: 255mm Width: 315mm
- Inventory No
- 43237
- Accession Number
- 2000-8/3
Description
One of six Baxter prints, made using his special colour-printing technique. From Isaac Frost, Two systems of astronomy: first, the Newtonian system, second, the system in accordance with the holy Scriptures (London, 1846), plate 9.
Baxter's was the first commercially successful method of colour printing. The process, patented in 1835, was complicated, and involved a basic image made using combinations of established intaglio techniques (engraving, stipple engraving, aquatint, etc.) and multiple applications of colour from relief blocks (woodblocks), with hand finishing.
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