Japan : its architecture, art, and art manufactures (1882)
Dresser, Christopher · London : Longmans, Green : New York : Scribner and Welford · leaf 304
n some of the best Japanese books. To insure their beingsharp, it was thought better to have them redrawn and re-engravedrather than have cliches from old blocks. As an illustration of free drawing, I may refer to Fig. 133, ART, AND ART MANUFACTURES. 285 which, in my judgment, could never have been… … Fig. 122. it must be admitted that the contrast between the solid and theoutline is very pleasant. As illustrations of the simplicity oftreatment which the Japanese conditions induce, I may give Figs.120, 122, 123, and 124, where in one example we have a planttouched in with solid black. Another is…
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