JFPtak Science Books Quick Post History of Dots series 
It has been quite a while since my last contribution to this series, and I’m sorry that this addition is such a quick one–it is, however, unexpected and lovely.
The engraving, “Monument of Nicholas Gaynesford and his Wives in Carshalton1 Church” was published in Lyson’s The Environs of London, 1796 (though this may be reprinted just a bit later), and depicts the very large monument to Gaynesford (1471-1548). What is particularly remarkable for me is the incredible stipple work that forms the background. On first glance the background treatment seems to be solid, but there is something else there that gives it a depth and causes the collection of stark white figures to seemingly float on the page. This is the cause:
This detail is about 20 square millimeters from the original and is just absolutely filled with small dots. A closer look reveals even more:
There’s a few hundred thousand of these marks in the image, which measures only about 35 square inches.