3-085-879 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

H.M. the young King of Spain, Alphonso XIII., 1898. '...the characteristics of the stone required [for lithography] are so special, and its supply so limited, that the discovery of what is stated to be an unlimited quantity of this stone...is of sufficient public importance for us to comment on the subject, and also to issue...a picture specially prepared by our own artists and lithographers...that of Alfonso XIII...in his cadet's uniform, and is a copy of a portrait [from a photograph] executed on the new stone by express permission accorded to The Illustrated London News...The newly discovered quarry is situated at Salsadella, in...Castellon...It is...a matter of common knowledge that the supply of lithographic stones has been hitherto practically limited to the quarries of Solenhofen in Bavaria..When it is borne in mind that maps, plans, architectural and mechanical drawings, playing-cards, copies of old prints and pictures, photographs, and even trade circulars and notices, and advertisements are produced by lithography, it will be seen that the discovery of a quarry like that of Salsadella may mean the development of a business which will prove the means of introducing into a poor country like Spain capital from England and elsewhere..'. From "Illustrated London News", 1898.