Dissertation Information for Daniel Francis McGrath NAME: - Daniel Francis McGrath
DEGREE:
- Ph.D.
DISCIPLINE:
- Library and Information Science
SCHOOL:
- University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (USA) (1966)
ADVISORS: - Raymond L. Kilgour
COMMITTEE MEMBERS: - Wallace J. Bonk - Howard H. Peckham - Russell E. Bidlack
MPACT Status: Fully Complete
Title: AMERICAN COLORPLATE BOOKS 1800-1900
Abstract: This dissertation is an attempt to do for nineteenth
century American colorplate books what Martin Hardie did for English
books with colored plates. It consists of five narrative chapters that trace
the patterns of artists, engravers, printers, subjects, and (especially) techniques that
shift across the pages of American colorplate books of the last century. The
narrative is supplemented by a bibliography of some 700 colorplate books; this
list is based on Whitman Bennett's A Practical Guide to American Nineteenth
Century Color Plate Books.
The earliest American colorplate books were
illustrated with hand-colored copperplate engravings. William Russell Birch and
John Hill stand out above the other artists and engravers of the early years.
Their work is informed by the spirit of the eighteenth century. About 1830 the
hand-colored lithograph displaced the hand-colored copperplate. James Otto Lewis,
George Catl in, and Charles Bird King form a trio of masters whose
Indian portraits were published as hand-colored lithographic book illustrations. John
James Audubon is also a genius of this generation, which came to flower in
the 1840's. Color printing, in the form of tinted lithography,
which was a style of decoration rather than an attempt at chromatic
representation, deve loped during the 18401s and en joyed much vogue in the following
decade. The best of the tinted illustrations appeared in the Government
reports of surveys and explorations. The largest was the Pacific Railroad Report, for
which John Mix Stanley made the greatest number of drawings. , Also in the 1840's. actually actually as early as
1841, full color lithographic printing, called chromolithography, began to compete with
hand-coloring. Gift books, chromolithographically decorated in a medieval
style, were very popular in the early fifties. By the end of the Civil War,
chromolithography had eclipsed all other methods of color reproduction. The yearS from
the close of the Civil War to the turn of the century were the golden years of
chromolithography: the first age of a broad sPectrum and heavy volume of colorplate
books. The 1890's saw the emergence of the trichromatic
halftone, growing out of such experiments as photo lithogrophy, hand-coloring
photographures, and trichromatic chromo lithography The twentieth century reaped the
rewards of experiment that conquered the ancient system of hand-coloring
and made 'possible a large number of books with colorplates that were, for the
first time, accurately representational and quickly produced.
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