Technische Entwicklung der Graphik
A 1908 Viennese catalogue of printmaking techniques, issued by the Erzherzogliche Kunstsammlung Albertina, the archduke's art collection, for students and collectors of European prints. The single plate shows a half-length portrait of a young woman with flowers in her hair, a neck ribbon and a bouquet at her shoulder, rendered in soft tonal gradations that suggest a mezzotint or stipple reproduction after an eighteenth-century painting. A designer could take its soft gray modelling, oval vignette framing and floral accents as a model for vintage tonal portraiture.
