Crane, Walter, 1845-1915 · London, G. Bell and sons · leaf 302
ALIUORT niRKR. PORTRATr OF KRAS.MUS, 1526. The style of drawino- shown in these woodcutswas no doubt to a great extent determined by the 280 … o < PCH THE (IRAPHIC INFLUENCE nature of the method ofcuttino- the block. ThedrawIniT on the smooth plank—not on the crosssection of the tree, as in modern wood-encrravin^J —was actually cut with a knife, not a graver. Eachline had to be excavated, as it were, from thesurface, the ground or…
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