A treatise on wood engravings : historical and practical (1881)
Chatto, William Andrew, 1799-1864, Jackson, John, 1801-1848, Bohn, Henry G. (Henry George), 1796-1884 · New York : J. W. Bouton · leaf 115
e contrary, is marked with an expressionnot unlike that of a Bavarian broom-girl. This manner of representingthe temptation of our first parents appears to have been conventional 90 PEOGRESS OF among the early German Fonnschneiders; for I have seen several oldwood-cuts of tills subject, in which… … In the opposite cut, which forms the compartment to the left, Esau,who is distinguished by his bow and quiver, is seen receiving a bowl ofpottage from his brother Jacob. At the far side of the apartment isseen a kail-pot, suspended from a crook, with something like a hamand a gammon of bacon…
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