Theodore Low De Vinne was one of the very first people to begin experimenting with color printing. He even won the gold Special Medal of Award of the American Institute of Graphic Arts in 1908 for his work in four-color-process printing (Encyclopedia, 2022). The four-color printing process was used in order to create accurate colors…
Theodore Low De Vinne was one of the first people to use the linotype machine to publish books in 1891 (Britannica, 2022). The Linotype machine was invented by Ottmar Mergenthaler in 1884 (Centre, 2022). This machine is a typesetting machine in that characters are placed in a finished line in order to print faster than…
Theodore Low De Vinne was born on December 25th, 1828 in Stamford Connecticut to his father Daniel, an abolitionist, Methodist circuit rider, and author, and mother Joanna Augusta Low De Vinne. De Vinne was the second oldest of six sons and attended public schools in Catskill, amenia, and white plains, New York (Koenig, 2022). He…
The trope I have chosen is a snake. In the three examples I have chosen, snakes are used as a symbol of evil. This is generally achieved due to a widespread fear of these creatures. Above: Detail from Original Sin, Adam and Eve in The Garden of Eden, late c. 19th. In this image, you…