Engraved by Bauchardy, successor to Chretien, at the Palais Royal, 93x124mm
A physionotrace of a man, engraved by Bauchardy at the Palace Royal, Paris, France, in about 1808.
Gilles Louis Chretien (1754-1811) invented the Physionotrace, a machine designed to produce an engraved copper plate from which multiple copies of a profile could be printed.
The artist drew the profile using a pointer attached by a system of levers to an engraving tool. This engraving tool then traced the image onto copper plate prior to printing.
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- Category:
- Photographs
- Object Number:
- 1990-5036/6977
- type:
- physionotrace
- credit:
- The Kodak Collection at the National Media Museum, Bradford
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