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 460
very beautifuland very decorative no one would be foolish enough to deny. That in the originaldrawings there was more refinement than could be given in the woodcuts, weknow from the blocks with the drawings on them uncut, and now to be seen inthe Plantin Museum. This work is very much like modern… … better proof of the fact that, before the days of process, much of the draughts-mans work was lost in the cutting, than a comparison between these drawings onthe block and the printed initials of the same date, while the realistic treatmentin the original drawing also shows that much of the old…
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