Artigue/Fresson process

Vincent Hoban (hobanv@ncad.ie)
Wed, 07 Jan 1998 12:44:09 +0000

For what its worth I have a reasonable description of Artique process
from a 1912 Dictionary of Photography.

Briefly: heavily pigmented gum arabic coated onto a well gelatin sized
paper. Dried and sensitised with 5-10 % solution ammonium bichromate.
Exposed under a negative in the usual way. Developed in a soup of
sawdust and water.

I also have a description by LeClerc from a slightly later book but
which mentions fresson.

If anybody wants fuller information I'm sure I can oblidge.

Vincent