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The masters and master-pieces of engraving (1894)

Chapin, Willis O · New York: Harper & Bros. · leaf 315

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ells Diploma of the Highland Society,-Nesbits Rinaldo and Armida, from Tassos Jerusalem Deliv-ered, and Harveys Death of Dentatus are among the notableexamples of the art. Clennells cuts are free and masterly inhandling, and show the artist-engraver; in mechanical skill andknowledge of line… … THE WATER-LILYDrawn by John La Farge, engraved by Henry Marsh Haydon, cannot be taken as a characteristic example of theworks of this school, for it is rather an attempt to imitate cop-per-plate engraving. As an example of cross-hatching on wood

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