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By 1840 all the main techniques
employed by artists for drawing on stone had been developed, including the use of one or
two background tints to give depth and warmth to the image. Hullmandel's experiments had
advanced to such an extent that he was able to produce graded tones on the tint stones,
and in November 1840 he patented the lithotint, a process which gave the prints the appearance
of wash drawings made by a brush. The first publication in which all the plates were produced
by lithotint, though chalk was still used for highlighting, was J. D. Harding's The Park and
the Forest, printed by Hullmandel and published by
Thomas Maclean in an edition of 1,000 copies in 1841.
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