Drawing & engraving : a brief exposition of technical principles & practice (1892)
Hamerton, Philip Gilbert, 1834-1894 · London ; Edinburgh : Adam and Charles Black · leaf 130
ising, though it is received asauthentic. The Virgin and Child of the Parislibrary is without date, but is supposed, apparentlywith reason, to be earlier than either of the twowe have mentioned ; and M. Delaborde has provedthat two cuts were printed in 1406. The Virginand Child at Paris may be… … Virgin and Child (facsimile of a woodcut of die fifteenth century).The earliest wood-engraving known. ENGRA VING 83 hollows and recesses of the design. Beyond thisthere is no shading. Rude as the work is, theartist has expressed exquisite maternal tendernessin the pressure of the Virgins cheek to…
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