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A practical manual of wood engraving : with a brief account of the history of the art (1886)

Brown, William Norman · London : C. Lockwood and Co. · leaf 21

An illustration from A practical manual of wood engraving : with a brief account of the history of the art, 1886, leaf 21 — INTRODUCTION, 7 hands, and faces generally bear evidence of having been remarkably well executed. Fig. 2 is a copy of an illustration in the Apocalypsis referred to above. It represents St John preaching to three men and a woman. Fig. 'which is taken from the Biblia Pau» … Fig. 3. — From the “ Bibiia Pauperum.” perum,'’ is exceedingly curious, as showing the general manner of representing the creation of Eve during the fifteenth century, the same sub- ject, by the way, frequently occurring prior to 1500. It must be confessed that both Figs. 2 and 3 present the…

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