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Ariadne florentina. Six lectures on wood and metal engraving (1904)

Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · New York : Longmans · leaf 171

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neither of them worth a Turneretching, scratched in ten minutes with the pointof an old fork ; and the common types of suchelaborate engraving are none of them worth asingle frog, pig, or puppy, out of the corner ofa Bewick vignette. 136. And now, I think, you cannot fail tounderstand clearly what… … 7 By the Springs of Paewassus. METAL ENGRAVING. 137 are black instead of shining ! You cannot havea more decisive and absohite proof that youmust not look in engraving for chiaroscuro. Nevertheless, her body is half in shade, andher left foot; and she casts a shadow, and thereis a bar of shade…

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