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Events relating to printing
The pleasure districts of Edo and Kyoto provide the delights of ukiyo-e, the 'floating world'
Prince Rupert of the Rhine pioneers mezzotint, the first half-tone technique in printing
The French scientist Denis Papin, while professor of mathematics at Marburg, develops the first steam engine to use a piston
Walpole founds a printing press, the Strawberry Hill Press.
A French artist, Jean Baptiste le Prince, discovers the aquatint technique in printmaking
Japanese artist Kitagawa Utamaro is a master of colour woodcuts, often depicting the courtesan district of Edo
Austrian author Alois Senefelder, experimenting with grease and water on stone, discovers the principles of lithography
The elderly Francisco de Goya becomes the first great artist to attempt lithography
Hokusai begins to publish his famous colour-printed views of Mount Fuji
John James Audubon completes publication of the 435 plates forming his 4-volume Birds of America
Scottish painter David Roberts completes publication of his 6-volume The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt & Nubia
English artist William Simpson sends sketches from the Crimea which achieve rapid circulation in Britain as tinted lithographs
The Christmas issue of the Illustrated London News includes chromolithographs, introducing the era of colour journalism
English physicist Joseph Swan receives a patent for bromide paper, which becomes the standard material for printing photographs
Genetic (or DNA) fingerprinting is invented and developed by British geneticist Alec Jeffreys
