Autotypograph, experimental speciman by George Wallis, 1860

Made:: 1860 in London

maker:: George Wallis

Print, autotypograph, carbon print, ‘Experimental Specimens of the New Art of Autotypography’ George Wallis (1811-1891), artist, museum curator and art educator. Platemark 8.6x5.8cm laid on card 8.5x15cm. Sheet letterpress Inscribed in pencil, b.l.: ‘At Nuremberg’, b.r.: ‘Geo Wallis 1860’. Printed label affixed beneath specimen, ‘Experimental Specimen of the New Art of Autotypography (Patented). George Wallis, Inventor and Patentee. Drawing executed in...45 minutes, Plate engraved in one second’, with explanation of the process as patented. Autotypograph and label are the only two held here, other items are at this number, specimens illustrating the autotypographic process: Artist's drawings, engraved plate prints and transfers to pottery (‘Bat’ process). These items stamped Woodcroft Bequest 1903, inked M1509B, presented by George Wallis to Mechanics Division 1877. Wallis was Keeper of South Kensington Museum, see file papers.

Details

Category:: Art

Object Number:: 1877-399

Materials:: paper (fibre product) and cardboard

Measurements:: overall: 185 mm x 150 mm
image: 86 mm x 58 mm

type:: carbon print and print

credit:: Woodcroft

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Document explaining the process of Autotypography

Document explaining the process of Autotypography. Text reads 'Under Her Majesty's Royal Letters Patent. The New Art of Autotypography. George Wallis, Inventor and Patentee. By this novel Art-process Drawings can be executed on a variety of substances, in such a manner that they can be engraved upon metal plates almost instantaneously, with the certainty that every touch of the original Drawing will be reproduced in such engraved plates, which can be printed from at the ordinary copper-plate printing-press. The process of executing the Drawing is easy and comparatively cheap; whilst that of engraving, being purely mechanical, is controlled with the greatest ease and certainty, each engraved plate occupying only from one to four or five seconds in production, according to size.'

Materials:: paper (fibre product)

Object Number:: 1877-399/2

type:: document

Autotypograph, experimental speciman by George Wallis, 1860

Print, autotypograph, carbon print, ‘Experimental Specimens of the New Art of Autotypography’ George Wallis (1811-1891), artist, museum curator and art educator. The print shows a section of a building. Platemark 8.6x5.8cm laid on card 8.5x15cm. Sheet letterpress Inscribed in pencil, b.l.: ‘At Nuremberg’, b.r.: ‘Geo Wallis 1860’. Printed label affixed beneath specimen, ‘Experimental Specimen of the New Art of Autotypography (Patented). George Wallis, Inventor and Patentee. Drawing executed in...45 minutes, Plate engraved in one second’.