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Edward Sheriff Curtis Nez Perce Babe #2300732

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Edward Sheriff Curtis Nez Perce Babe #2300732
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Edward Sheriff Curtis photogravure
Nez Perce Babe
Circa 1960
$1850.00
Full page measures 17 1/2" wide by 22 1/2" high
Image only measures 15 1/2 " high ny 11 3/4" wide
Printed by John Andrews & Son from a copyright 1900 photgraph by E.S. Curtis.
All of the photgravures 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. It features a tiny baby swaddled in beaded rawhide and tightly bound in a carrier. 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 picture, a glass transparency is made from the negative. Next, a copper engraving plate is ...
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<tr><td>Condition:museum quality</td></tr>
<tr><td>Year:1960</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 Sheriff Curtis Nez Perce Babe</td></tr>
<tr><td>Style:Native American</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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