Drawing & engraving : a brief exposition of technical principles & practice (1892)
Hamerton, Philip Gilbert, 1834-1894 · London ; Edinburgh : Adam and Charles Black · leaf 193
A.& C BLACK, EDINBURGH VERONA Engraving by W. MillerFrom a Drawing by J. M. W. Turner, R.A. One of the very few plates after Turner still in such goodcondition that they give fine impressions. This has, however,been printed rather too dark, so that the impression has lessatmosphere than the… … ENGRAVING 127 The speciality of Turners influence was in thedirection of delicacy of tone. In this respect theTurner vignettes to Rogerss poems were a high-water mark of human attainment, not likely everto be surpassed. The art of line-engraving is now practicallyextinct in England. Efforts have…
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