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 541
ts. As hereached the age of thirty-five without having produced any cut whichdisplays much ability in the execution, it is not likely that he wouldhave excelled as a wood engraver had his life been prolonged. Thefollowing is a fac-simile of one of the best of his cuts in the Blossoms ofMorality,… … Eobert Johnson, though not a wood engraver, has a claim to a briefnotice here on account of the excellence of several of the tail-piecesdesigned by him in Bewicks Birds, and from his having made thedrawings for most of the wood-cuts in Bewicks Fables. He was bornin 1770, at Shotley, a village in…
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