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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 273

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nd is introduced, with trifling variations, in at 248 WOOD ENGEAVING least half a dozen of his subjects ; aud the horseman with a kind ofturban on his head and a lance in his left hand occurs no loss frequently.St. Veronica, who is seen holding the sudarium, or holy handkerchiefin the fore-ground… … who assists to bear the cross, appears to be the twin-brother of St. Josephin the Sojourn in Egypt. The figure of Christ, bowed down with theweight of the cross, is well drawn, and his face is strongly expressive ofsorrow. Behind Simon the Cyrenian are the Virgin and St. John ; andunder the gateway…

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