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Monotype by Edgar Degas showing a woman reclining in an armchair, absorbed in reading, with soft black ink shading and a book illuminated in her hands.
Figure 4: Basic operation of the optical system used in Monotype photocomposition (see text). A film matrix is shown at top.
Woman Reading, monotype by Edgar Degas; in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
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