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It is an engraving in the text, with text also on the back.
. Condition: minimally stained, otherwise good - see scan!
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Wood engraving, or xylography, is a common method of letterpress printing that was used towards the end of the 18th century. It was developed from woodcuts by Thomas Bewick in the 19th century.
Templates of drawings, pictures or photographs are transferred to a wooden board cut across the grain with a wooden burin instead of a knife, processed and then printed on paper. Because these wood engravings are printed directly from the woodblock without photomechanical reproduction processes, they are original graphics!
Especially between 1850 and 1900 they were used in books and magazines of the 19th century. century illustrative purposes. This also explains why wood engravings were almost always printed together with text contributions and often have text on the back. Wood engravings almost always come from print media (newspapers, illustrated magazines or books) of the 19th century. century.
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Trun (German and officially Truns until 1943) is a political municipality in the Surselva region of the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland. The municipality was named after the village of the same name. Trun's history goes back to the Bronze Age: In Caltgeras, north of the road from Trun to Darvella, there is a settlement from around 1200 BC near the stream structure. BC proven. On the right bank of the Rhine near Grepault, Walo Burkart discovered a settlement from the Hallstatt period and an early medieval church fort near Zignau in 1931. Some walls are still visible today. The settlement of the region around Trun was completed by the early Middle Ages at the latest. From the Middle Ages onwards, Trun, as a neighbor of Cadi, formed the fourth court together with Sumvitg. The monastery castles of Cartatscha, Friberg, Ringgenberg and Phiesel bordered the state of the Disentis monastery to the east against the rule of Waltensburg or Jörgenberg off. Trun was the founding place of the Gray League in 1424, its court until 1798 and its meeting place until 1814. Next to the mentioned Caplutta Sontga Onna chapel there has been a courtyard of honor of the Gray League since 1701. The Sursilvan Museum is now housed in the former monastery courtyard of La Cuort, where the Bundestag of the Gray League was held in 1428. Among other things, part of the old maple tree trunk under which the Gray League was founded in 1424, as well as some works of art by the painter Alois Carigiet, are exhibited in what was then the meeting room of the Gray League. The name Trun appears in the will of Tello, who bequeathed goods to Disentis Abbey in 765. The place name is probably derived from the name of the stream Taurontum, probably today's Ferrera stream, which flows through the village. The Ferrera, for its part, received its name at the time when iron (Italian ferro) came from the rock on the southeast flank of the Pez Ner (German. Black Peak) was won in the Val Punteglias. The stream rises from the 'Glatscher da Punteglias' glacier at an altitude of around 2345 m and flows into the Rhine south of Darvella, around 300 meters east of the town sign. Since July 1999, the Ferrera power plant has used its water to generate electrical energy, with an average annual production of 18 million. kWh. The gradient from the socket to the power plant is 771 meters. The “TRUNS” brand from Fabrica da ponn (cloth factory) was present throughout Switzerland from 1912, and the Truns trousers were the trademark of “every true Grisons resident”. At its peak, the company created In 1960/61 a new factory was built and employed 800 people. In 1993 the company ran out of money. 100 jobs were saved through a new start with a guarantee from the municipality. In 1999, the company found itself in crisis again and introduced short-time work - “for the fourth or fifth time in 30 years”. A year earlier, the unprofitable production of uniforms had been abandoned. Two years later the factory finally closed its doors. Population
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