314 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1899. 



A PPENDIX B. 



DESCRIPTIVE LABEL SHOWING THE ARRANGEMENT OP THE COLLECTION ILLUS- 

 TRATING THE GRAPHIC ARTS. 



It is the aim of the Section of Graphic Arts to illustrate all the methods and proc- 

 esses ever used for the expression, graphically upon plane surfaces, of artistic 

 ideas, or for the representation of natural and other objects. It therefore embraces 

 drawing and painting, as well as the various methods of engraving, so far as the 

 latter have been used for the production of prints. The held is a vast one, aud the 

 present collection must be looked upon as only a fragmentary attempt to illustrate 

 the main poiuts in the scheme. The collection is arranged as follows : 



First Alcove. — Drawing, painting, and the monotype. 



Case 1. — Drawing in lead-pencil. Case 4. — Pen and ink. India ink. Water- 



2. — Drawing in crayon (chalk). color. 



3. — Drawing in charcoal. 5. — Oil-paintiug. The monotype. 



Swinging screens placed against the wall: Drawings by artists of the seventeenth 



century, etc. 

 Second Alcove. — Engraving in relief on wood (and on metal). 



Case 6. — Tools and materials used by the modern wood-engraver. Electrotyping. 

 Overlaying. Positive aud negative impressions. Original drawings, 

 with the engravings made from them. 



7. — Original drawings, with the engravings made from them, continued. 



8. — Some specimens of old relief engraving down to eud of eighteenth century. 



(Kuife work, black line, on wood. Graver work on metal). 

 9. — English relief engraving on wood (and on metal f), from Bewick aud his 

 predecessors aud followers to the middle of the nineteenth century. 

 (Mainly white-line work.) 

 10. — Modem English wood-engraving. Some specimens of modern German and 



French work. 

 11 — Wood-engraving in America from Anderson to the present time. 

 Swinging screens placed against the wall : Wood-engravings by Americau engravers. 



Third Alcove. — Intaglio engraving on metal. 



Case 12. — The tools and materials used for etching aud engraving, mezzotiutiug 

 excepted. (Illustrations of printing and electrotyping metal plates to be 

 added.) Some specimens of old engraving. 



13. — A set of progressive proofs from an engraved plate forwarded by etching, 

 with the plate. 



14. — Engravings by American engravers. 



15. — Engravings by Americau engravers, continued. Bunk-note engraving and 

 the transfer process. 



10. — Stippling. Mezzotint. Ronletting used to produce tints. 



17. — Modern mixed methods of engraving. Machine ruling. Machine engrav- 

 ing. 

 Placed against the wall: The Saxton engraving machine 



FOURTH Alcove. — Intaglio engraving on metal by means of mordants, i. e., etching. 



Case 18. — An etched plate in its various stages. A set of working proofs from an 

 etched plate finished with the graver. Positive and negative impressions 

 from an etched plate. The printing of etchings. The materials on which 

 etchings are printed. 



