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DESCRIPTION OF PRINT SUBJECT: Kefalonia, also known as Cephallenia, Cephallania, Cephallonia, Kefallinia, or Kefallonia is the largest of the Ionian Islands in western Greece. The island is named after the mythological figure Cephalus, although some believe its name literally means "an island with a head", referring to the island's shape, because the name "Cephalus" is derived from the Greek word for "head". The island received its name from the mythical hero Cephalus, who arrived to the island as a refugee from Athens, displacing the island's initial inhabitants who were known as Taphians (Teloboes or Taphioi). In the 16th to 18th centuries, it was one of the largest exporters of currents in the world, providing with Zakythos and owned a large shipping fleet, even commissioning ships from the Danzig shipyard. The towns and villages mostly were built high on hilltops, to prevent attacks from raiding parties of pirates that sailed the Ionian Sea during the 1820s. In 1864, Kefalonia, together with all the other Ionian Islands, became a full member of the Greek state.
Please note: the terms used in our auctions for engraving, etching, lithograph, plate, photogravure etc. are ALL prints on paper, and NOT blocks of steel or wood or any other material. “ENGRAVINGS”, the term commonly used for these paper prints, were the most common method in the 1700s and 1800s for illustrating old books, and these paper prints or “engravings” were created by the intaglio process of etching the negative of the image into a block of steel, copper, wood etc, and then when inked and pressed onto paper, a print image was created. These prints or engravings were usually inserted into books, although many were also printed and issued as loose stand alone lithographs. They often had a tissue guard or onion skin frontis to protect them from transferring their ink to the opposite page and were usually on much thicker quality woven rag stock paper than the regular prints. So this auction is for an antique paper print(s), probably from an old book, of very high quality and usually on very thick rag stock paper. | |
