Materials and Techniques for Early Colour Printing

Early Colour Printing: German Renaissance woodcuts at the British Museum. By Elizabeth Savage. 260mm. Pp 240, many col pls. Paul Holberton Publishing, London, 2021. isbn 9781911300755. £50 (hbk).

“…The introduction contains a brief history of colour printing up to the 1870s, which for Savage, as an author and co-editor of Printing Colour 1400 – 1700: histories, techniques, functions and receptions (Stijnman and Savage 2015), must have been a challenge to distil. It includes an explanation of ‘Chiaroscuro’, the relationship to colour woodcuts produced in Italy, what ‘German’ means in this context and specialist terms, ‘matrix/matrices’, ‘impression,’ ‘interdependent’ and ‘designer’.…”