Zincography

A panoramic image of Kyiv, Ukraine (circa 1870–1880) using the zincographic process.

Zincography was a planographic printing process that used zinc plates. Alois Senefelder first mentioned zinc's lithographic use as a substitute for Bavarian limestone in his 1801 English patent specifications.[1] In 1834, Federico Lacelli patented a zincographic printing process, producing large maps called géoramas.[2] In 1837–1842, Eugène-Florent Kaeppelin (1805–1865) perfected the process to create a large polychrome geologic map.[3]

  1. ^ K. Pearson, "Lithographic Maps in Nineteenth-Century Geographical Journals," Ph.D. Diss., the University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1978, p. 69, citing Jules Desportes, "Notice sur la lithographie, sa découverte, ses progrès," Le Lithographie 3(1942), p. 74; J.-H.-Herman Hammann, Des Artes Graphiques destines à multiplier par l'impression, consideres sous le double point de vue historique et pratique Paris and Geneva: Joël Cherbuliez, Libraire-Editeur, 1857), p. 329; and "Zincographie", Le Lithographe 2 (1840): pp. 28-30.
  2. ^ K. Pearson, "Lithographic Maps in Nineteenth-Century Geographical Journals," Ph.D. Diss., the University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1978, citing Alfred Lemercier, La Lithographie française de 1796 à 1896 et les arts qui s'y rattachent; manuel pratique s'addressant aux artistes et aux imprimeurs (Paris: C. Lorilleux et Co., 1899), p. 189; and V. Raulin, "Note relative au coloriage des cartes par impression lithographique," Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences 20 (1845): pp. 44-45.
  3. ^ Geoffrey Wakeman, Aspects of Victorian Lithography, Anastatic Printing and Photozincography. Wymondham: Brewhouse Press, 1970, p. 35.