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The masters of wood-engraving (1889)

Linton, W. J. (William James), 1812-1897 · New Haven, CN : The author ; London : B.F. Stevens [Chiswick Press, C. Whittingham and Co.] · leaf 217

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or a feather. What qualification must be added to so broad a statement is this, that I must be understood to refer to his best work Quadrupeds only, and especially of the figures which not so good. he had the opportunity of drawing from life. In the Quadrupeds, for lack of this advantage, are many… … THE TAME DUCK the best of many. The same excellence is observable in the backgrounds of the Peacock and Night-Far, and in numerous bits of fitting and characteristic foreground such as the pebbly sand on which the Gud/ is lying.

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