Art Print: fine art painting prints or art poster prints.

Acrography as a way of making art prints.

Acrography is one of the numerous modern methods of reproducing pictures or designs. By means of a hydraulic press a mass of finely-powdered chalk is converted into a coherent block with a slightly shining surface. On this surface the design is drawn with a finely-pointed brush dipped in a gelatinous ink. By means of a velvet pad or light brush the loose chalk is removed from the surface of the plate, leaving the parts covered with the ink, which now stands up on the surface as if the plate were an engraved wood block. After it has been dipped in a solution of silica, the chalk plate is used for the production of a stereotype or electrotype plate by the usual process and that in turn for reproducing the original picture or design.

Autographs, documents of any kind in the handwriting of their authors (Greek - avroypatфa). Interest in autographs was first shown in the vogue of the album, or Liber Amicorum, which seems to have begun in Germany as early as the 14th century, and has continued in the form of visitors' books to our own day. The British Museum contains several of these albums, with signatures of celebrities of the reigns of Elizabeth and James I, in whose time they were especially popular. The collection of detached autographs is said to have begun in France as early as the 16th century; in England the first notable collector was the antiquary Kalph Thoresby, who died in 1725. The finest modern collection in private hands is that formed (1805-82) by Mr. Alfred Morrison, of which a descriptive catalogue, in six volumes, with facsimiles, was printed between 1883 and 1892.

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