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 662
erefore, extremelydifficult to preserve a distinct outline in this manner, and hence a blackconventional outline is introduced in those parts where properly thereought to be none, except such as is formed by the tint relieving againstthe white parts, as is seen in the back part of the head of Jacob… … carried this principle too far, not only running the lines of his tintsinto the white on the light side of his figures,—that is, on the sideon which the light falls,—but also on both sides of a light object. Before dismissing this part of the subject, it is necessary to observefurther, that when…
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