trombone. photogravure, parterre

Photogravure of Victor Hugo, 1883

The two paintings, "The Judgment Day" (1939, National Gallery of Art) and "Let My People Go" (ca. 1935–1939, Metropolitan Museum of Art) derive from the acclaimed series Douglas created for James Weldon Johnson's 1927 publication "God's Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse."

Photogravure is an intaglio printmaking or photo-mechanical process whereby a copper plate is coated with a light-sensitive gelatin tissue which had been exposed to a film positive, and then etched, resulting in a high quality intaglio print that can reproduce the detail and continuous tones of a photograph.

Contents

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• 1 History
• 2 Qualities
• 3 Technique
  • 3.1 Printing the plate
• 4 Alternatives
  • 4.1 Digital direct-to-plate photogravure
  • 4.2 Photo-polymergravure / Polymer Photogravure
• 5 See also
• 6 References
• 7 External links

History[edit]

A 1901 photogravure illustration by W. E. F. Britten for Alfred, Lord Tennyson's poem St. Simeon Stylites.

photogravure

phòto • gravúre

[名]
1 [U]写真凹版術，グラビア印刷.
2 写真凹版，グラビア（写真）.

Pronunciation: /ˌfəʊtə(ʊ)ɡraˈvjʊə/

Definition of photogravure in English:

noun

1An image produced from a photographic negativetransferred to a metal plate and etched in.

The ‪#‎Latona‬ fountain and parterres restoration, ends May 18, 2015 after more than two years of works.
http://latone.chateauversailles.fr/en


 trombone

Line breaks: trom|bone

Pronunciation: /trɒmˈbəʊn/ 

Definition of trombone in English:

noun

1A large brasswind instrumentwith straighttubing in three sections,ending in a bellover theplayer’s leftshoulder,differentfundamental notes being made using aforward-pointingextendableslide.

parterre

See definition in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

Line breaks: par|terre

Pronunciation: /pɑːˈtɛː/

Definition of parterre in English:

noun

1A level space in a garden occupied by an ornamentalarrangement of flower beds:he was planting bulbs in the parterre for a springdisplay

2North American The part of the ground floor of atheatre auditorium behind the orchestra pit, especially the part beneath the balconies.

Origin

Early 17th century: from French, from par terre 'on the ground'.

Robert Browning was born in London ‪#‎onthisday‬ in 1812. Here’s a photogravure of the poet http://ow.ly/Mk6ct