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The two “engraved prints by Léopold Robin, Parisien engraver master of several hundreds of copperplates, memorials of Spots and Monuments of the French patrinmony” show the Notre Dame, a gothic masterpiece in Paris, and one of the favourite architecture and monumental must-visit tourist spots in Paris I adore.

Léopold Robin and his etchings are still hand-pressed on copperplates in a Paris workshop which was founded in 1907 – one of the few specialists remaining in France.

I find them beautiful. They’re actually on note cards I bought in a stationary shop in Paris, and you can feel the incredible texture of the ink impression on the paper.

Excerpt from “The Printing Revolution in Eighteenth Century France”:

Engraving is an intaglio printmaking process in which the design is incised directly into the surface of a metal plate, usually copper, with a sharp graver or burin. The ink is spread on the surface of the plate and carefully wiped off until it remains only in the incised areas. The ink is transferred from the incisions to the sheet of paper by means of a printing press. …

Intaglio is an Italian word that describes any printing process in which the ink is held in furrows below the surface of a metal plate and is transferred to paper through the application of pressure, usually from a printing press. All the prints in this exhibition were made with intaglio processes.

==>The Printmaking Revolution in Eighteenth Century France @www.nga.gov/exhibitions/clrflimpr-intro.shtm