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Prints; a brief review of their technique and history (1914)

Richter, Emil Heinrich, 1869- · Boston, New York : Houghton Mifflin Company · leaf 232

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of a largeseries of landscape plates, the Liber Verita-tis, after sketches by Claude Lorrain, leadsus to J. M. W. Turner, to whom these platessuggested the well-known Liber Studio-rum, but of this more in our review of thenineteenth century. In the matter of woodcut, little need besaid in this… … PLOWER AND FRUIT PIECERichard Earlom ENGLAND wood block, if cut across the grain, instead ofplank wise as used for the old woodcut. Theplank block necessitates the use of the knife;a cross-grain block of boxwood on the otherhand, permits the use of that king of instru-ments, the graver. Wood -…

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