Originally Posted by
dazza
I wonder whether the drawings were traced from photograph originals? The perspective is well done, and it's the first time I've seen these images personally.
Hi dazza
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Yes I think the drawing is likely to have been done from a photograph. Remember that in 1886 photographs did not appear in books, newspapers, or periodicals. Illustrations were usually etchings or woodblock engravings, etc. It was not until the 1890?s that the first halftone photographic reproductions appeared in daily papers, and then it took another ten years before the process was fully adopted.
Chris
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