Taking a broadly chronological approach, the development of botanical illustration is traced from medieval manuscript and early printed herbals, through florilegia and scientific plant illustration in the seventeenth century, to …
We will cover the nineteenth-century origins of duplication, common duplicating processes like spirit, mimeography, xerography, and offset—as well as more unusual methods like verifax, electrofax, and Ozalid—through modern technologies such …
“The course gave me a different perspective on early photography and the development of the photobook.” — 2017 student This course will explore the evolution of the photographically-illustrated book from the …
Course Length: 30 hours Course Week: 1–6 June 2025 Format: in person, University of Pennsylvania Libraries in Philadelphia, PA Fee: $1,495 Japanese woodblock prints and illustrated books from the seventeenth …
Students are encouraged to bring their own objects for examination and discussion. The processes considered will fall into four broad categories: nineteenth-century, twentieth-century black and white, twentieth-century color, and twenty-first-century …
This seminar provides those who have already taken Book Illustration Processes to 1900 (I-20) with a further opportunity to work with files and packets containing original illustrations (the basic course uses …
The course centers on illustrations in typical publications, with an eye to changing technology and changing reader expectations rather than aesthetic appreciation, although private press books and major artists are …
The identification of primarily European illustration processes and techniques, including (but not only) woodcut and wood-engraving, etching, line engraving, stipple, aquatint, mezzotint, lithography, steel engraving, collotype, gravure and aquatint photogravure, …
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