Nature printing
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Nature printing is a printing process, developed in the 18th century, that uses plants, animals, rocks and other natural subjects to produce an image. The subject undergoes several stages to give a di
Benjamin Franklin's nature printed currency (1779)
Plate from The Nature-printed British Seaweeds, (1859–60)
Nature print, Alois Auer
Gyotaku
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Gyotaku is the traditional Japanese method of printing fish, a practice which dates back to the mid-1800s. This form of nature printing, where ink is applied to a fish which is then pressed onto paper
Nature printing
…presses for practical purposes. For larger numbers of images, a facsimile to be used as the printing plate is made in copper by the electrotype process. Gyotaku Eric P. Newman, "Newly Discovered Franklin Invention: Nature Printing on Colonial and Continental Currency," The Numismatist (1964…
Gyotaku print of a fish