The Laughing Cavalier 1624 by Frans Hals. Photogravure sur papier vélin japonais(1910)

Photographische Gesellschaft Berlin. Publishead by the Berlin Photographic Compagny Berlin-London. W.149 New Bond Street New York, 305 Madison Avenue.

Print publisher, specialised in hand photogravures after contemporary painters.

The Berlin Photographic Company (Photographische Gesellschaft Berlin), founded in 1862, was a prolific German publisher of high-quality photogravures, specializing in reproductions of Old Master and contemporary artworks. Active until roughly 1920, the company operated international branches, including London and New York, and produced extensive catalogues of artistic photographic prints. 

Photogravure (in French héliogravure) is a process for printing photographs, also sometimes used for reproductive intaglio printmaking. It is a photo-mechanical process whereby a copper plate is grained (adding a pattern to the plate) and then coated with a light-sensitive gelatin tissue which had been exposed to a film positive, and then etched, resulting in a high quality intaglio plate that can reproduce detailed continuous tones of a photograph.

The process was important in 19th-century photography, but by the 20th century was only used by some fine art photographers. By the mid-century it was almost extinct, but has seen a limited revival.

Their work is recognized as a significant, albeit now archival-lost, contribution to the dissemination of art via photography in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

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