The graphic arts : a treatise on the varieties of drawing, painting, and engraving in comparison with each other and with nature (1882)
Hamerton, Philip Gilbert, 1834-1894 · London : Seeley, Jackson, and Halliday · leaf 438
ary example of facsimile engraving. From him the student may go to Holbein for a kind of wood-engraving essentially the same but superior in delicacy and refinement. Holbein is exactly in the same position as Diirer with regard to wood-engraving. People speak of Holbein’s cuts as they do of… … THE KNIGHT. HOLBEIN. THE WAGGONER. HOLBEIN. exactly the same position as George Du Maurier, because he makes his pen-drawings on white paper and they are afterwards photographed on wood, but they did occupy the same position as John Leech, who drew upon the block itself, and we should never speak…
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