Pen drawing and pen draughtsmen : their work and their methods : a study of the art today with technical suggestions (1920)
Pennell, Joseph, 1857-1926 · New York : Macmillan · leaf 110
n illustration, and to the Englishengravers the credit of cutting their drawings, as nearly as they could, not to looklike steel engravings which were the fashion, but like the designs made on theblocks by the artists. Meissoniers most important work, however, was not doneuntil 1858, when his… … 64 TEN DRAWING tributed, some years earlier, nothing approaching it had been done, Meissoniermust be acknowledged to be the inventor of modern design as Bewick is theinventor of modern wood-engraving. These drawings from the Contes Remois arethe best things that Meissonier made; and in their way no…
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