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Ariadne florentina; six lectures on wood and metal engraving, with appendix; given before the University of Oxford in Michaelmas term, 1872. (1892)

Ruskin, John, 1819-1900, Norton, Charles Eliot, 1827-1908, author of introduction, etc · New York : Charles E. Merrill & Co. · leaf 107

An illustration from Ariadne florentina; six lectures on wood and metal engraving, with appendix; given before the University of Oxford in Michaelmas term, 1872., 1892, leaf 107
t these ignore light and shade ? I never said that mezzotint ignored light andshade, or ought to do so. Mezzotint is pro-perly to be considered as chiaroscuro drawingon metal But I do mean to tell you that bothRembrandts etchings, and Le Keuxs finishedline-work, are misapplied labour, in so far… … THE LAST FUEEOW.^Fig. 2.) Fac-aimile from Holbeins woodcut, WOOD ENGRAVING. 83 Here are facsimiles, very marvellous ones,*of two of the best wood engravings ever pro-duced by art,—two subjects in Holbeins Danceof Death. You will probably like best that Ishould at once proceed to verify my last…

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