Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 373
now how theseelevations making the picture are produced onthe wood or metal. The old-time method was to draw or photographthe picture to be reproduced on a smooth, woodensurface, and with small, sharp-pointed knives socut away the wood as to leave the lines necessaryto produce the picture standing… … WsSsvsHhoi; c> A WOODCUT ILLUSTRATION OF THE OLD HOMESTEAD. Note the chickens and the grindstone. Engraved and lent to ST. NICHOLAS by Walworth Stilson, Shelton, Connecticut. worn, and the picture thus be lost, it was thecustom to make a metal cast, known as an elec-trotype, of the block, and to…
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