Vandyck Photogravures of the Canadian Rockies

Byron Harmon published this spiral-bound portfolio of eighteen black-and-white photos hand colored and printed using the Vandyck photogravure process. Unfortunately, I have no idea what the Vandyck process is and can’t find any information about it on the internet. Considering the high cost and difficulty in making black-and-white photogravures, I doubt this was based on the same process.


Click image to download a 13.0-MB PDF of this booklet.

One thing is evident from this booklet: the colors in the images produced by this process were pretty dim. The three-color cover image showing Mt. Assiniboine is not typical of the images inside, which use at least four colors — red, blue, green, and yellow, plus black — and maybe more. But the shades of those colors tend to be dark so the overall images look somewhat dingy.

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Click image to download a 695-KB PDF of this envelope.

This booklet came in an envelope making it suitable for mailing. The envelope was dark brown, so if any address on the front would have been difficult to read.


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  1. It seems that Vandyck Printers Ltd was a British company that specialized in photogravures.

    There happens to be an old ad online right now, from when their factory was up for sale in 1959. The company was established in 1910 (with roots further back), specializing in “Monochrome Photogravure of the finest quality”: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/333480516806

    The factory was built in 1910-12 and now houses the University of Bristol Theatre Collection: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Bristol_Theatre_Collection

    And the National Portrait Gallery in the UK has a page of portraits by Vandyck Printers Ltd: https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp147962/the-vandyck-printers-ltd

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