Chapin, Willis O · New York: Harper & Bros. · leaf 299
esigns, which were mainly thework of eminent artists, rather than to the cutting. The actual engravers were, in mostinstances, little morethan mechanics, moreor less skilful. In thelatter half of the centu-ry the art had alreadydegenerated, and bythe close of the seven-teenth century it hadreached… … THE HUNTSMAN AND THE OLD HOUNDBy Thomas Bewick THOMAS BEWICK- FABLES, BIRDS, ETC. 213 the art during the period of its dedine the reader is referred tothe excellent Treatise on Wood - Engraving, by John Jackson.We now come to the time of its revival in the eighteenth cen-tury by Bewick, and to the…
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