Print, autotypograph, carbon print, ‘Experimental Specimens of the New Art of Autotypography’ George Wallis (1811-1891), artist, museum curator and art educator. The print shows a section of a building. Platemark 8.6x5.8cm laid on card 8.5x15cm. Sheet letterpress Inscribed in pencil, b.l.: ‘At Nuremberg’, b.r.: ‘Geo Wallis 1860’. Printed label affixed beneath specimen, ‘Experimental Specimen of the New Art of Autotypography (Patented). George Wallis, Inventor and Patentee. Drawing executed in...45 minutes, Plate engraved in one second’.

Document explaining the process of Autotypography. Text reads 'Under Her Majesty's Royal Letters Patent. The New Art of Autotypography. George Wallis, Inventor and Patentee. By this novel Art-process Drawings can be executed on a variety of substances, in such a manner that they can be engraved upon metal plates almost instantaneously, with the certainty that every touch of the original Drawing will be reproduced in such engraved plates, which can be printed from at the ordinary copper-plate printing-press. The process of executing the Drawing is easy and comparatively cheap; whilst that of engraving, being purely mechanical, is controlled with the greatest ease and certainty, each engraved plate occupying only from one to four or five seconds in production, according to size.'