rdinary thatit is impossible they can have been experi-mental work. It is rather the consummationof development that these unique examplesshow. You shall find in them delicate colour-gradation, obtained doubtless by the printerblending the tints on the wood-blocks, withpeaches more crimson at the… … CHILD COLOUR-PRINT BY W. LEE HANKEY, R.E. The Art of the Colour-print was unknown to those mysterious old Chinese.Quite amazing is the freshness of their coloursafter two and a half centuries. The clever and artistic Japanese, of course,developed in practice the principle of relief-block cutting…
Art · Decoration and ornament
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