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  • PICTORIAL PRINTING, OR STIGMATYPY. Among the notable inventions of the year are two for the production of pictorial effects by the use of movable metal types, cast like ordinary printing types, and bearing upon their faces different devices, which, in combination, accomplish the most surprising effects. One of these is American, and the other German; but, as they appeared almost simultaneously, we notice first the American invention. Mr. A. P. Rollins, of Boston, conceived the idea of producing by the use of type substantially the effects ordinarily obtained by line engraving; and after considerable study determined upon the use of 14 different faces or characters. The first effort in their use was made by Mr. Rollins himself, who composed a picture, 6 X 7½ inches, containing 10,230 pieces of type; producing a representation of an edifice, showing doors, steps, windows, columns, and the roof, in accurate perspective, with surroundings of trees, foliage, changing clouds, and other accessories, — all with surprising fidelity. Other pictures have since been made from the same types, with even greater success. The inventor does not claim that the idea is even yet fully developed; but his object in endeavoring faithfully to represent ordinary objects of architecture and landscape by the use of movable types, has been accomplished with remarkable success. The German invention of a similar nature is due to one Fasol, a printer of Vienna, who, during the past year, has produced, with movable types, pictures of great beauty. The art, as practised by him, is called “Stigmatypy,” from the fact that he uses only the full point, of different sizes, cast upon the same body. The effect is produced by the difference in shade, according to the proximity of the full points. On the opposite page is presented a specimen of the pictorial printing, representing a correct view of the house of the Adams family, Quincy, Mass.

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