Piotr Stachiewicz (1858 - 1938), The smallest of antelopes, heliogravure, Warsaw 1897 [ hunting, Hr. Potocki ].

Piotr Stachiewicz (1858 - 1938), The smallest of antelopes, heliogravure, Warsaw 1897

Soiling of the sheet, plate impression.

Illustration of Count Józef Potocki's hunting expedition to Africa in the period from December 1895 to March 1896 including descriptions of elephant and rhino hunting.

Format : 29 x 38.5 [cm].

Heliogravure (photogravure) (gr. helio + gravure) - a type of intaglio printing technique, similar to aquatint, involving the photographic transfer of an image onto a metal plate (usually copper) and etching with photosensitive emulsion in such a way that the brightest areas create the shallowest depressions. Invented in 1879 by Karel Klíč.