Vassili Verestchagin : painter, soldier, traveler : autobiographical sketches
An 1888 New York autobiographical memoir by the Russian painter and soldier Vasili Vereshchagin, published by the American Art Association for an English-reading audience of art readers. The pictures are wood-engraved portraits and sketches of people, several rotated on the page, with hatched line shading that a designer could borrow for monochrome character studies. One engraving shows a bearded older man in a dark coat against a shaded ground, while the sideways heads wrapped in headscarves show how tightly the engraver built form with parallel strokes.
