American art and American art collections; essays on artistic subjects (1889)
Montgomery, Walter · Boston, E.W. Walker & co · leaf 501
first seen may have been The Looking-Glassfor the Mind, an earlier work of Bewick. In 1794 then, at the age of nineteen, having given a year to experiments on the wood, hewas actually, for William Durell, a New York publisher, copying these Looking-Glass cuts stillupon type metal, when, the work… … From the Looking-Glass of the Mind. Sept. 24. — This morning I was quite discouraged onseeing a crack in the box-wood. Employed as usual atthe Doctors. Came home to dinner, glued the wood, andbegan again with fresh hopes of producing a good wood-engraving. Sept. 26. — This morning rose at five…
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