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 68
WOOD ENGRAVING. 54 comprise the most difficult in my series, up to the present. In Fig. 30 the greater por- tion of the ‘‘ shading up ” is effected with nearly straight lines, and, of course, in both pictures, every mark, however small and seemingly un- important, will be drawn upon the wood, and… … Fig. 29. mark is left intact by him. In cutting Fig. 30, commence as before at the top, working down- wards, and where the high lights are prominent, the work must be very finely engraved and stand out clearly, but in the dense portions the reverse rule must of course be followed out. The portions…
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