 Evans was a British wood-engraver and colour printer during the Victorian era, known for printing children’s picture books. He collaborated with illustrators such as Kate Greenaway, Beatrix Potter, Walter Crane and Randolph Caldecott. He used the technique of chromoxylography to allow for a cheap and effective way of printing coloured books. The process had a single woodblock for each colour ( primarily red, blue, yellow ) used within one image, and even though the process was complicated it allowed for the artwork to be shown at full potential in terms of the mass production methods at the time. Illustrators would sometimes directly draw onto the blocks or a photographic process would be applied to the woodblocks to then be carved out. The processes of printmaking during Evans time allowed for mass production of coloured books, it was not necessarily as an experimental art form, more of a practical technology to transfer artwork into an accessible book for all to read. References:
http://www.avictorian.com/Evans_Edmund.html http://web.stanford.edu/dept/SUL/library/prod/depts/dp/pennies/print.html Accessed: 25/07/20 Comments are closed.
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