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 241
, much more colour will be perceived, which results from thecloseness of the single lines, as in the dark parts of the rock immediatelybehind the figure of Eve ; from the introduction of dark lines crossingeach other,—called cross-hatching,—as may be seen in the drapery ofthe Divinity ; and from… … 4% ^^^^ \\\<» K^ 3 r more clearly than any verbal explanation the difference with respect tocolour between the wood-cuts in the old block-books and in most othersprinted between 1462 and 1493, and those contained in the Nuremberg * In the original, this cut, with one of Christs side pierced by a…
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