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 660
jects that merely try his patience, he is apt to lose alltaste for the art, and become a mere mechanical cutter of lines, withoutcaring for what they express. Such a cut as the following—copied from an etching by Eembrandt—will form a useful exercise to the pupil, after he has attained facilityin… … immediately arrests the eye, while the figures in the back-ground, beingintroduced taferely to aid the composition and form a medium betweenthe dark colour of the animal aud the white paper, consist of little morethan outline, and are comparatively light. In engraving the hog, itis necessary to…
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