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The masters and master-pieces of engraving (1894)

Chapin, Willis O · New York: Harper & Bros. · leaf 300

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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… … THE YELLOW BUNTING — From Bewicks Birds Thomas Bewick was born near Newcastle-on-Tyne m 1753.and began his career in the studio of Ralph Beilby, a Newcastlecopper-plate engraver. During his apprenticeship he engraveda number of wood-cuts for Dr. Huttons Treatise on Mensura-tion, and, encouraged by…

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