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nature-printing
[Cf. G. natur(selbst)-druck.]
The method or process of producing a print of a natural object, esp. a leaf, by means of the mark made by the object itself, under pressure, on a prepared plate. So nature-print v. (also in transf. use); n., an impression obtained in this way; nature-printed ppl. a.
1855Bradbury in Proc. Roy. Inst. Gt. Brit. II. 106 The Art of Nature-Printing is a method of producing impressions of plants and other natural objects, in a manner so truthful that only a close inspection reveals the fact of their being copies. 1855T. Moore (title) The Ferns of Great Britain{ddd}Nature printed by Henry Bradbury. 1859Johnstone & Croall (title) Nature-Printed British Seaweeds. 1883H. Drummond Nat. Law in Spir. W. (1884) 259 As if the actual reeds of its native jungle had nature-printed themselves on its hide. 1950W. Blunt Art Botanical Illustr. xi. 141 Some of these works illustrated by nature printing have considerable charm, especially where the process has been used to record grasses, ferns and delicately formed plants. 1967Cave & Wakeman Typographia Naturalis i. 2 It is appropriate that the earliest description of the original technique of nature printing and the oldest extant nature print should both be by Leonardo da Vinci. Ibid. 11 Other nature printed illustrations to books were produced in Germany in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. |