Lead plate 01
What Gillray's Printer Did Before the Ink Hit Paper
The copper plate as the cartoonist's battlefield
Section 3 of 6
Wax, copper, stone, boxwood, zinc, then a scanner
Five technologies doing one job. The plate, the stone, the boxwood block, the zinc line block and the scanner each changed what a drawn line could be on a printed page.
Printing · 4 pieces · the full archive
Printing · Plate 02
Senefelder's Stone and What Daumier Did With It
A Bavarian Invention and the Line It Set Free Read the plate
Printing · Plate 03
The Punch Block Was Cut by Six Men at Once
One drawing, many hands Read the plate
Printing · Plate 04
Zinc Killed the Wood Engraver and Nobody Mourned
How a photomechanical plate ended a craft and changed the drawn line Read the plateThe other sections
DraughtsmenThe people who did it, and what each of them is on record for.10 piecesPapersThe press was the publisher, and it set the deadline.4 piecesArchivesFour drawers, four countries, and about two hundred thousand sheets of paper.3 piecesPrizesThe Pulitzer since 1922, and the legal record before it.2 piecesGlossaryPunch called it a cartoon in 1843, and the word never went back.2 pieces