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Edward Curtis photogravure"Wisham Bride" #2325408

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Edward Curtis photogravure Wisham Bride  #2325408
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AW-12489
Edward Sheriff Curtis Photogravure
"Wisham Bride"
Circa 1960
Volume 8
Plate 281 Circa 1905
Edward Sheriff Curtis photogravure
This piece features a beautiful young bride festooned in yards of beads of exquisite textures.

$1895.00
Full page measures 17 1/2" wide by 22 1/2" high
Image only measures 15 1/2 " high by 11 3/4" wide
Printed by John Andrews & Son from a copyright 1905 photograph by E.S. Curtis.
All of the photogravures are from one New York collection and are printed on tweed weave paper. They are in pristine museum quality condition. All have plate numbers, title, copyright and publishers signature line.

Edward Sheriff Curtis (1868-1952) traveled the United States photographing and recording native Americans at ceremonial occasions and at work. Curtis was sponsored by Theodore Roosevelt and J.P. Morgan. He made orotone photographs with golden overtones created on glass and powered with gold dust and banana oil.

This is a photogravure of an original photograph made in the 1905. A photogravure is a photographic image produced from an engraving plate. The process is rarely used today due to the costs involved, but it produces prints which have the subtlety of a photograph and the art quality of a lithograph. In essence, the production of a photogravure consists of three steps: taking the picture; producing a printing plate of the image; and printing the image on paper. The basic process, also called photogravure, was developed in the 1850s. After taking a ...
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<tr><td>Condition:museum quality</td></tr>
<tr><td>Year:1905</td></tr>
<tr><td>Country:USA</td></tr>
<tr><td>Maker:John Andrews & Son</td></tr>
<tr><td>Height:22.5</td></tr>

<tr><td>Width:17.5</td></tr>

<tr><td>Title:Edward Curtis photogravure"Wisham Bride"</td></tr>
<tr><td>Style:sepia tone</td></tr>
<tr><td>Materials:tweed weave paper</td></tr>
<tr><td>Type:Photogravure</td></tr>
<tr><td>Location:Bakersfield, Ca.</td></tr>
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