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 29
INTRODUCTION, 15 Birds,” issued in 1804, original copies of which now realise very high prices. All the illustra- tions were drawn and engraved by Bewick, he being the first artist who abandoned “ cross- hatching” for the now very general level tinting process ; and it is noticeable that the birds… … Fig. 5. — Tail-piece of Bewick. pieces, many of which are exceedingly humorous and pathetic. In Fig. 5 is shown a reduced copy of one of these — a poor ewe in the cold winter time picking a worn broom for sustenance in front of an old ruined cot; a scene which, trifling as it ap- pears, tells a…
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