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 518
Bewicks just and deservedly great reputation, but tocorrect the erroneous opinions which have been promulgated on thissubject by persons who knew nothing of the very considerable assist-ance which he received from his pupils in the drawing and engravingof the tail-pieces in his history of British… … 1?^-^=::^?:^^^ birds, yet the land-birds in the first volume, from his being morefamiliar with their habits, and in consequence of their allowing morescope for the display of Bewicks excellence in the representation of moonlight scene at sea, page 120, vol. ii. [edition 1816]; the river scene at…
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