Chalk style
etching by Louis René Lucien Rollet around 1840
after a watercolor by Karl Bodmer , between 1832 and 1834
The chalk style , even crayon, Krayonstich, chalk art or pastel engraving called, is a graphical gravure printing process .
One of the earliest surviving images in this technique comes from Jean-Charles François around 1750 , who is considered to be the inventor of this technique. This technique is a special form of expression of the graphic art of the Rococo . Gilles Demarteau and Louis-Marin Bonnet also used this technique as early as the middle of the 18th century.
The printing plate is covered with an etching base similar to the etching . The lines of the drawing are knocked over with a hammer, the surface of which is provided with point-shaped elevations, a so-called moulette , so that the sum of the small dots that expose the plate create the impression of a chalk line. Further tools are the mattoir and the roulette , which also create punctiform indentations.
Prints made with this technique are easy to confuse with chalk lithographs . In contrast, graphics produced with the chalk style show the plate edge typical of gravure printing.
The technique was refined and used for illustration at the beginning of the 19th century.
literature
- Wolfgang Autenrieth: New and old techniques of etching and fine printing. From witch's meal and dragon's blood to the photopolymer layer. Tips, tricks, instructions and recipes from five centuries - An alchemistic workshop book 6th edition, Krauchenwies 2010, ISBN 978-3-00-035619-3 ( table of contents )
- JB Janku: The color stitch as a forerunner of photographic three-color printing, Halle ad Saale, 1899
- Johann Heinrich Meynier: Instructions for etching, especially in Crayon and Tuschmanier, published based on practical experience , Hof, 1804
