S.P. Avery, engraver on wood : [scrapbook of samples of his work]

Avery, Samuel Putnam, 1822-1904 · New York · 78 pictures

This is a scrapbook of wood-engraved samples compiled by Samuel Putnam Avery, a New York engraver, and it collects his commercial work for display. The pages mix portrait busts, comic genre scenes and a street-front building view, showing how a wood engraver rendered faces, crowds and architecture at small scale with dense parallel hatching that a designer could adapt for period-style illustration.

Avery, Samuel Putnam, 1822-1904 · Wood-engraving

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