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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 177

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ither 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… … IVBy the Springs of Parnassus. METAL ENGRAVING. I 3/ are black instead of shining ! You cannot havea more decisive and absolute 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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