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 122
es, instead of being horizontal as in the former, are mostly slanting.Heineken observes, that to the forty-eighth cut inclusive, the chapters inthe printed work are conformal)le wilh the old Latin manuscripts; and WOOD ENGRAVING. 97 as a perceptible change in the execution commences with the… … In the above cut, its title, Casus Luciferi,—the Fall of Lucifer,—iaengraved at the bottom; and the subject represented, is Satan and therebellious angels driven out of heaven, as typical of mans disobedienceand fall. The following are the first two lines of the column of textunderneath the cut in…
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