Facilities - Prints & Printmaking
General Facilities
All the above facilities need to be booked in advance and the price will be agreed on application.
- Work and study space for artists, art historians and related disciplines.
- Demonstration area for short courses and demonstrations relating to the care of paintings and traditional painting and printmaking techniques.
- A range of historic printing presses
- Displays of historic materials and practices relating to painting and printmaking.
- Large collection of engraved wood blocks, copper etchings and engravings, hand printed impressions from some of the collection may be purchased.
- Hard and soft ground copper etching
- Aquatint and Mezzotint
- Photo etching
- Direct litho for hand drawn and painted litho plates
- Photo lithography
- Steel facing (electro-deposition of iron on copper)
All the above facilities need to be booked in advance and the price will be agreed on application.
Equipment available for use includes
- Star Wheel rolling press for intaglio printing
- Albion Platten press for wood block and lino cut printing
- Foot treddle letter press for printing type and blocks
- Large format electrically operated rolling press to accommodate plates up to 32” X 48”
- Hunter Penrose litho proofing press
- De la Rue intaglio proofing press for metal plates and dies.
- Waite and Saville, plate and die stamping presses ( 4” x 2”, 8”x 3”, 9”x 5”, 13”x 18.5”).
- Foot treddle metal guillotine
- Machine shop pillar drill, lathe and work bench
- Plate preparation sinks
- Copper engraving tools
- Wood engraving tools
- Mezzotint rockers and guides
- Aquatint box
- Mezzotint scrapers and burnishers
- Digital image setter and film processor