La vie de Frédéric, Baron de Trenck, traduite de l’Allemand, par M. Le Tourneur. . . .

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Creator

Friedrich von der Trenck.

Title

La vie de Frédéric, Baron de Trenck, traduite de l’Allemand, par M. Le Tourneur. . . .

Coverage

Berlin and Anvers:

Publisher

C. N. Spanoghe,

Date

1788.

Subject

Purchased with funds donated by Peter Drummey.

Description

RBS owns two of four copper printing plates created to illustrate a 1788 edition of the adventures of the Prussian Baron Friedrich von der Trenck (1726–1794). RBS faculty use these printing surfaces to teach students how to distinguish engraving from etching. By examining the lower left-hand corner of this particular printing plate, produced for the frontispiece of volume four of the book, one can observe the difference between the heavy, blunt lines of etching and smoothly tapered lines of engraving.

Source

From the collection of Rare Book School