English book-illustration of to-day; appreciations of the work of living English illustrators, with lists of their books (1903)
Sketchley, R. E. D. (Rose Esther Dorothea), b. 1875 · London : K. Paul, Trench, Trübner and co., ltd. · leaf 22
ve negleded. With all the dis-advantages under which they laboured in the re-produdion of fine line the craftsmen of Venice andFlorence essayed and achieved more than this.Witness the fine rendering into pure line of a pictureby Gentile Bellini of a tall preacher preceded byhis little crossbearer… … FROM THE RAPPRESENTAZIONE DI S. CRISTINA, 1555. of a pope, which I have unearthed from a favouritevolume of Venetian chapbooks at the BritishMuseum. A Florentine pi6ture of Jacopone daTodi on his knees before a vision of the BlessedVirgin (from Bonacorsis edition of his Laude,1490) gives another…
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