Modern pen drawings: European and American; (1901)
Holme, Charles, 1848-1923 · London, New York [etc.] Offices of 'The Studio' · leaf 16
f draughtsmen, and, secondly, a new raceof printers. It is difficult for us to-day, even with the memory of onlytwelve odd years of mechanical reproduction, to understand the hap-hazard methods of the older draughtsmen on wood. A historian ofthe Illustrated London News, for instance, has put it on… … B British The Actor (By permission of ^^ Punch) BERNARD PARTRIDGE II British Gilbert, were content to give the engraver the merest outhne on thewood block. To the mere mechanical cutter was left the task ofcorrecting the outline here and adding a detail there. In 1866 astep forward was made by…
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