Drawing & engraving : a brief exposition of technical principles & practice (1892)
Hamerton, Philip Gilbert, 1834-1894 · London ; Edinburgh : Adam and Charles Black · leaf 138
orestriking in this valu-able series than theWeaving (woodcut by j. Amman). remarkable close- ness with which the artist observed everything in thenature of a hard fact, such as the shape of a hatchetor a spade ; but he sees no mystery anywhere—hecan draw leaves but not foliage, feathers but… … ENGRAVING 91 ance of two trunks of trees denuded of their bark,and makes a pendant in the composition to a realtree on the opposite side which does not look moresubstantial. The clouds of steam round about thejet are like puddings. Nor was this a personal de-ficiency in Baldung Griin. It was…
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