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 395
se of the Dance of Death, and the style in which they areengraved is very unequal, soipe of them being executed with considerable 368 FUETHER PROGRESS AND DECLINE OF neatness and delicacy, and others in a much coarser manner. Thefollowing cut, Abraham about to sacrifice Isaac, Genesis xxii, is one… … Though most of the Bible cuts are inferior both in design andexecution to those of the Dance of Death, and though several of themare rudely drawn and badly engraved, yet many of them afford points ofsuch perfect identity with those of the Dance of Death, that it seemsimpossible to come to any other…
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