Liner prints
Right, I just compared my few at hand Cavanagh liner prints. The early ones altogether feature a thicker layer of all colours. The more we progress in time the individual colour shifts are thinner, thus they appear lighter and less bright. Again, this might have to do with "progress" in printing technology.
It is like in porcellain. Early french 18c Vincennes ware had a distinct, thick guilded frame designs around the underglaze blue paintings. The blue blured into the white soft-paste body of the vessel and one tried to hide this with a thick layer of gold. Very nice effect that disappeared later, when the manufacture moved to Sevre and the more so, once the French werer able to produce hard-paste porcellain (compare Germany, alredy in 1708!). fftopic:
Right, I just compared my few at hand Cavanagh liner prints. The early ones altogether feature a thicker layer of all colours. The more we progress in time the individual colour shifts are thinner, thus they appear lighter and less bright. Again, this might have to do with "progress" in printing technology.
It is like in porcellain. Early french 18c Vincennes ware had a distinct, thick guilded frame designs around the underglaze blue paintings. The blue blured into the white soft-paste body of the vessel and one tried to hide this with a thick layer of gold. Very nice effect that disappeared later, when the manufacture moved to Sevre and the more so, once the French werer able to produce hard-paste porcellain (compare Germany, alredy in 1708!). fftopic: