1937 Photogravure Athens Erechteion Temple Ruins Greek Classical MD1

This is an original 1937 monochrome photogravure of the Erechtheion in Athens, Greece. Please note that this item comes with a bottom caption that is not depicted in the digital image. The dimensions reflect only the area shown in the digital image. Period Paper is pleased to offer an exceptional collection of historic original photogravures of the landscape, buildings, and people in and around the Mediterranean area. Each piece was produced using a photoengraving process known as photogravure. A photogravure is a photographic image produced from an engraving plate--an expensive and rarely used process today. Through the transfer of etching ink from an etched copperplate to special dampened paper run through an etching press, this process creates an image that registers an extraordinary variety of tones. This unique tonal range comes from photogravure's variable depth of etch--the shadows are etched many times deeper than the highlights unlike the halftone processes that merely v