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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 27

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producing a general impression of grace(partly, perhaps, because their work was intendedto be printed in conjunction with far heavier type)the German artists and woodcutters often showedextraordinary power in rendering facial expression. XXIV INTRODUCTION. My favourite example of this is a little… … FROM INGOLds * GULDIN SPIEL. AUGSBURG, I472. wife, while on the other Sophonisba is watched bya horror-stricken messenger as she drains the poisonher husband sends her. But there is a naivete aboutthe figure of Scipio which has frequently provokedlaughter from audiences at lantern-leftures, so…

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