British painters; with eighty examples of their work engraved on wood
A survey of British painters issued by D. Appleton in New York in 1881, pairing short biographical notices with eighty paintings reproduced as wood engravings for American general readers and picture buyers. The plates are full-page tonal engravings after Victorian genre, historical and narrative canvases: courtroom and tavern interiors, seaside groups in shawls and bonnets, crowded outdoor gatherings under trees, all built from dense cross-hatching that holds up when enlarged or reduced for texture and figure groups.
