The job was working in, er, a camera shop, retouching photographs.
The original drawings for this map had to be done with exceptional neatness, the draughtsman spending twelve months on that which he would have completed in four months had it been intended to engrave the map on copper; yet an average chart, measuring 530 by 630 mm., which would have taken two years and nine months for drawing and engraving, was completed in less than fifteen months - fifty days of which were spent in " retouching " the copper plate.
No doubt he was employed mainly, as Pliny testifies, in retouching and elaborating his general history.
A Guide to ordering and using the images retouching of Images No retouching is allowed on any images without written consent from Royal Images.
A Guide to ordering and using the images Retouching of Images No retouching is allowed on any images without written consent from Royal Images.