Pen drawing and pen draughtsmen, their work and their methods; a study of the art to-day, with technical suggestions (1894)
Pennell, Joseph, 1857-1926 · London, New York, Macmillan and company · leaf 122
et Virginie there is no doubt that Menzel obtained Ids knowledge of the possibilities of wood-engraving. But to Meissonier and the Romanticists must be given the credit of inventing modern illustration, and to the English engravers the credit of cutting their drawings, as nearly as they could, not… … to Les Contes Rhnois appeared, engraved by Lavoignat and Leveille. This book has never yet been surpassed, it is the perfection of drawing and engraving on wood, and considering, that save the others to which he had contributed, some years earlier, nothing approaching it had been done, Meissonier…
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