Book Illustration Processes to 1900

“If you want to learn the ‘how to’ of illustrations, this is the course for you.” — 2017 student

Course Length: 30 hours
Course Week: 20–25 July 2025
Format: in person, University of Virginia in Charlottesville, VA
Fee: $1,495

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, and process line and halftone black-and-white and three-color relief printing.

Almost the sole medium of instruction in this lecture course will be actual examples of original prints drawn from the extensive RBS collections. […]