Conditional support. A good digital reproduction of a modestly flawed original reproduction. However, it needs more descriptive information: what is the medium? How big is it? What does the writing at the bottom right say (is that the name of the engraver, or did Thiele do both the composition and the engraving)? If a little more context can't be found, then I don't think it should be featured.--
ragesoss (
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17:20, 14 July 2008 (UTC)reply
It's pretty near A3 size, woodblock engraving, and it can be difficult to exactly identify who did what in a Victorian newspaper, but Thiele is the only one credited. The text reads "Studies of Operas: Lohengrin"
It says something else (another name?) within the print, on the lower right. Something like Killer 181. Also, there are some symbols (an engraver's monograph?) at the bottom center-right, just down and to left of the other writing. Was is just woodblock, or woodblock to electrotype?--
ragesoss (
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23:23, 14 July 2008 (UTC)reply
Ah, yes. It's probably Keller, but anyone who knows about Victorian woodblocks can you that it's very, very difficult to identify Victorian engravers a lot of the time. I can tell you that it's almost surely just woodblock, though - this was a daily newspaper, and the scan is taken from the original.
Shoemaker's Holiday (
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00:45, 15 July 2008 (UTC)reply
Conditional support. A good digital reproduction of a modestly flawed original reproduction. However, it needs more descriptive information: what is the medium? How big is it? What does the writing at the bottom right say (is that the name of the engraver, or did Thiele do both the composition and the engraving)? If a little more context can't be found, then I don't think it should be featured.--
ragesoss (
talk)
17:20, 14 July 2008 (UTC)reply
It's pretty near A3 size, woodblock engraving, and it can be difficult to exactly identify who did what in a Victorian newspaper, but Thiele is the only one credited. The text reads "Studies of Operas: Lohengrin"
It says something else (another name?) within the print, on the lower right. Something like Killer 181. Also, there are some symbols (an engraver's monograph?) at the bottom center-right, just down and to left of the other writing. Was is just woodblock, or woodblock to electrotype?--
ragesoss (
talk)
23:23, 14 July 2008 (UTC)reply
Ah, yes. It's probably Keller, but anyone who knows about Victorian woodblocks can you that it's very, very difficult to identify Victorian engravers a lot of the time. I can tell you that it's almost surely just woodblock, though - this was a daily newspaper, and the scan is taken from the original.
Shoemaker's Holiday (
talk)
00:45, 15 July 2008 (UTC)reply