1922 Rotogravure Eiffel Tower Palace Versailles Paris Aerial Views Sepia Vintage Print

We are pleased to offer a historic 102+ year old ORIGINAL Rotogravure print titled Eiffel Tower and Palace of Versailles.    This beautiful vintage sepia print is 10.5" x 16" (PP0012)    3/24

Captions include:
"Eiffel Tower, highest structure in the world. as it looks to the people of the beautiful city on the Seine spread at its foot.  It was erected in 1889 in the Champ De Mars and is 984 feet high"

"Palace and Gardens of Versailles in the suburbs of Paris.  The Palace of Versailles was built by Louis XIV.  At a cost of many millions spent on the structure and in the embellishment of the magnificent park in which it stands.  The treaties of 1871 and of 1919 were signed at Versailles"

Condition:

Good Condition with some very light toning to the page due to age.   One very small closed tear is present on the top left border.  See photos.  Please note that there is printing on the reverse side of the page.

Rotogravure—Gravure Printing

Gravure printing originated in the early nineteenth century. The process did not become widespread until the early twentieth century, however, when newspapers embraced this new technology. Characterized by quality halftone reproductions printed at high speed on a variety of paper stock, gravure printing allowed the newspaper industry to reproduce photographs and artwork on a mass scale on inexpensive newsprint paper.   

The technology adopted by newspapers is more precisely called rotogravure—gravure printing from an etched cylinder as opposed to a flat plate. Unlike the letterpress, which uses raised or relief printing, gravure uses intaglio printing, in which metal is etched with recessed "cells" to hold the ink. The process was first used in art reproduction because of its high-quality tonal gradation and color depth. From this process evolved photogravure—gravure printing where a plate is etched from a photographic image. Fox Talbot of Great Britain produced the first photographic negatives in 1852. Karl Klic (Klitsch or Klietsch) modified Talbot's process in 1879 by using copper cylinders (instead of plates) for rotary printing and rotogravure was born.