Yale University Framing Option:Unframed Ptolemy’s First Modern Map of

Ptolemy’s First Modern Map of Italy

Chromolithography demands a sophisticated understanding of color and precise registration of each stone used in the process

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Yale University Framing Option:Unframed Ptolemy’s First Modern Map ofRichard Rummell Yale University Re strike engraving from the original plate (c. 1913). Printed on heavy woven paper and hand colored. Plate size: 17 1 4 x 29 At the turn of the century, Littig & Company commissioned the accomplished artist Richard Rummell (1848 1924) to create watercolors of some of the nations most prestigious colleges. From these watercolors, copper plates were engraved and a limited number of pulls (engravings) were distributed.