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Thanks for this Baba Prague!
Wonderful to see the deck in progress. We're SO CLOSE now!
best,
robert
Wonderful to see the deck in progress. We're SO CLOSE now!
best,
robert
Ankou said:Etchings are such unique looking things aren't they? You guys have definately captured that sort of look in this new deck.
It is fabulous, Baba - having followed it from its conception to its almost-birth I am very excited to see it come out so well - good idea to take us to the printers! I was also interested in how closely Grandville worked with the engravers on the etchings taken from his sketches. It's that theme - Grandville with one of his regular engravers - that I've chosen for the 3 of Coins, to illustrate the "architect and the master of works" image.baba-prague said:The deck is taken from etchings - Grandville's work was usually made into etchings for reproduction (of course, considering the time we are talking about - early to mid 19th century). We have tried to reproduce the artwork in considerable detail (and we do a lot of work on "cleaning" scans etc), so that you can see the original etched detail. Mostly we've worked directly from first editions where we've been able to get them and afford them, and as Grandville supervised those himself the etching and print is very fine quality, as is the hand-colouring - we've coloured most of the cards ourselves but we have used some prints that were originally hand-coloured and we've tried to stick to the kind of palette and style of colour that Grandville used. I'm glad that comes across well - thanks
Helvetica said:It is fabulous, Baba - having followed it from its conception to its almost-birth I am very excited to see it come out so well - good idea to take us to the printers! I was also interested in how closely Grandville worked with the engravers on the etchings taken from his sketches. It's that theme - Grandville with one of his regular engravers - that I've chosen for the 3 of Coins, to illustrate the "architect and the master of works" image.