PHOTO STONEHENGE MONUMENT BRITISH ARCHITECTURE 1481

HISTORICAL CONTEXT: Stonehenge is located near Salisbury, England. Construction of Stonehenge took place over a period of 5000 years with various groups adding and subtracting stones, producing the megalithic monument we still see today. Stonehenge is, in modern times, linked with many New Age and modern Druid practices. Since the late nineteenth century, it has been the subject of intense debate, both as to its original purpose, its construction and the architectural engineering surrounding it. Intense manual labor moved the Bluestone rocks, some as large as 45 tons, twenty miles. Visitors can still see the drag marks today. Many student of Stonehenge believe sun worshipers constructed at least some phases of the monument since the midsummer sunrise and midwinter sunset appear between two of the stones. Whatever the original purpose of Stonehenge, this rare, century old view, adds to its mystery.

CAPTION: Stonehenge Monument, near Salisbury, England in the 1890s.

PHOTOCHROM: The photochrom process was a combination of photography and lithography that started in the 1800s and used until the development of true color photography in the 1930s. While the results can look more like a painting than a photograph, the images are striking. The photochrom (sometimes-spelled photochrome in America) system developed in Switzerland and then licensed to various companies in other countries. Detroit Publishing Company, Detroit, Michigan was the only company to license the process in the United States. The process first took black and white photographs and hand colored the resulting print. Then, using a special series of stone plates (minimum of four and up to 14 separate stones for a single print), prints could be reproduced in larger quantities. One of the reasons the results are so spectacular is that the pigments in the inks and ingredients to process the stones came from exotic locations around the world. The results—even more than a hundred years later—give us a unique, richly colored and very intense image.

ORIGINAL MEDIA: The Detroit Publishing Co. (original name Detroit Photo Graphic Company), Detroit, Michigan, originally produced the image used for this new print. During the last decade of the 1800s and early 1900s, they produced some of the finest photochrom images. Unfortunately, cheaper (and frequently lesser quality) printing methods spelled their demise.

PAPER QUALITY: This new print is on a highest quality, acid-free, 100-pound glossy premium text paper that allows for maximum color brilliance and fidelity for older images. For an expanded explanation of our Paper Quality, go to our FAQ by Clicking Here.

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