from the king,he produced aseries of platesafter the oldmasters, repro-ductions that forthe time werewonderfully trueto the originals,and were an ad-mirable attempt to render the character of chalk drawings. At the sametime the new process did not altogether fulfil the highexpectations which it had… … Fig. 131. Jean Charles Francois : Portrait ofJ. F. Denis (detail). 300 COLOUR PRINTS which shows almost every possible method of treating theplate—line-engraving, aquatint, and the crayon manner—all of them wrought into such harmony that at first itis scarcely possible to distinguish the different…
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