Ariadne florentina. Six lectures on wood and metal engraving (1904)
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · New York : Longmans · leaf 122
-stices to be deliberately cutclear, to get that two inches ^ i^- 4- square of shadow. Now calculate—or think enough to feel theimpossibility of calculating—the number ofwoodcuts used daily for our popular prints, andhow many men are night and day cutting 1,050square holes to the square inch, as… … g6 in. THE TECHNICS OF finest accomplishment, is not really difficult,—only tedious. When you have once got intothe practice, it is as easy as lying. To cutregular holes witJiout a purpose is easy enough ;but to cut /rregular holes with a purpose, thatis difficult, for ever;—^no tricks of tool or…
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