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