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 242
ous to1500 the engravers have seldom attempted anything beyond a simpleoutline with occasionally an indication of shade, or of colour, by meansof short parallel lines. The following is a fac-simile of a cut inBonsignores Italian prose translation of Ovids Metamorphoses, folio,printed at Venice by… … The subject illustrated is the difficult labour of Alcmena through themalign influence of Lucina, as related by Ovid in the ixth book of theMetamorphoses, from verse 295 to 314. This would appear to have beenrather a favourite subject with designers, for it is again selected forillustration in…
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