DeutschCassel – Wilhelmshöhe, Part of the Park of. The grand cascade. Wood engraving by the Xylographic Institute of Richard Henkel from a photograph by Sophus Williams, Berlin. (1886.) Inscribed: R. Henkel X. .A., otherwise as above. 14.3 x 8, 2 cm. – Continuous local text on Cassel on both sides.
“ If temporally and financially it is not worthwhile to send special reporters … so (more and more it has to be resorted to copies) which are available in increasing numbers: photographs … also the changed taste of the audience helped photography to growing importance in xylography …
Photography as new invention
becomes that interesting … that it puts its stamp on other traditional illustration techniques, too ”
(Osteneck, Zur xylographischen Darstellung im 19. Jhdt., in Lüneburger Beiträge zur Vedutenforschung, pp. 120 ff.).
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