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 451
, toMantegna, or to any of the illustrators of the fifteenth andsixteenth centuries for motives, but to literally copy andsteal their designs and to print them on a modern pagereveals an absolute sterility of invention, or a conserva-tive servility which is disgusting, or a half cut cutenesswhich… … of our needs; but on looking through Howard Pyles Otto ojthe Silver Hand, onefinds the little tailpieces there have much the same motives, and are carried outin much the same spirit, and yet are altogether original in subject, while they arereproduced mechanically in a way which would have…
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