Catalogue of a collection of engravings, etchings, and woodcuts (1879)
Fisher, Richard · [London? Printed by J. C. wilkins] · leaf 379
ber of portraits of Charles H. and the celebrities ofhis Court. At the end of the last, and commencement of the present century,in the reproduction of the portraits and pictures of Sir JoshuaReynolds and his contemporaries, mezzotint-engraving attainedits highest state of perfection in England. One… … English Meszotint Engraving. 329 the process, with some few exceptions, has fallen almost intodisuse. The standard work upon the subject is the Histoirede la Gravnreen vinnicre noire, par Leon de Laborde (8vo, Paris, 1839), renderedadditionally valuable by the clever copies and facsimiles it…
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