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Aubrey Beardsley
'The slippers of Cinderella', from The Yellow Book |
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By the late nineteenth century the process relief line block could achieve a deeper black and purer white than any obtainable previously in the hand press era. This allowed Beardsley to create tonal effects from tiny dotted patterns and wavy lines - seen here in the leafy arches and rose trees behind Cinderella, and in the lace details of her dress - which reinforced an often disturbing tension between the large areas of black and white. |