The above century was much richer in this respect than any one that succeeded it, displaying specimens of art that have only been rivalled, perhaps never outdone, by the very skilful engraverson wood of modern times.
Rejecting this heathen symbol altogether, the painters and engravers of the middle ages have substituted a small human figure escaping from the mouths of dying persons, as it were, breathing out their souls.
As long as simulated notes could be passed with ease, and detected with difficulty, the Old Bailey had no terrors for clever engravers and dexterous imitators of the hieroglyphic autographs of the Bank-of-England signers.
A tool with a semicircular edge, -- used by engravers to clear away the spaces between the lines of an engraving.
This necessitates brief sketches of distinguished engravers in wood or copper, belonging to all these countries, with some account of their works.
I shall treasure up your notices against my second edition for the volume of Engravers is printed off, and has been some time; I only wait for some of the plates.
Could I afford it, and we had engravers equal to the task, the public should be acquainted with their merit; but I am disgusted with paying great sums for wretched performances.
But the most practised engravers cut out the whites of a drawing with their graver from between the black lines.
It has been said that wood-engravers killed their own art so far as journalism was concerned by their surrender to commerciality with its frequent demand for the ready-to-hand rather than the superior thing.
In fact, her sculptors and engravers were always ready to serve the reigning patesi, whoever he might be.
The most skilful engraversin Yedo were called kashira bori and were always employed on Utamaro and Hokusai prints.
The author's sketches and other material are commonly called "originals"; the finished illustrations are known by the engravers as "copy.
In rough drawings that are to serve only as copy for engravers a flat color may be used for water areas and its conversion into water lines specified.
Many wood engravers became noted for their artistic rendering of magazine illustrations, of famous paintings, and of other works of art.
He spoke of Roeschen's youngest sister as a real genius, who would one day outstrip all the engravers in Ulrichsthal.
To this early acquaintance with the rules of art the Bohemian glass engravers are indebted for a resource that enables them to make the most of their skill and ingenuity.
The appointment of John Roettier as one of the Engravers to the Mint led to a quarrel between him and Simon, which resulted in the resignation of the latter.
Winter, who was one of the engravers of the Mint during the reign of William, for whom he executed several medals.
George Bower, or Bowers, as he signs himself on his later medals, was appointed one of theengravers to the Mint after the Restoration, a post which he filled till his death in 1690.
He came to England about 1730, and was shortly afterwards appointed one of the engravers to the Mint.
Other schoolbooks of that date show similar appropriations of English engravings; but even at that time there were a few wood engravers in America.
About this time the magazines were placing great stress upon pictorial work and a new school of engravers came into existence.
The wood engravers had already departed from the painful reproduction of each line of a pencil drawing and had become skilled in representing tints of light and shade if placed on the whitened block with a brush.
These were made, regardless of cost, by the best artists and engravers to be found in the country.
Kings and queens turned engravers and compositors, glorying to labor with their own hands in the wonderful art.
Kitty thinks all photo-engravers the embodiment of original sin," said the Shining One.
There were eminent engravers still; but the zenith had been passed.
The present subject is simply of portraits, and I stop now just as we arrive at contemporary examples, abroad and at home, with the gentle genius of Mandel beginning to ascend the sky, and our own engravers appearing on the horizon.
Two other engravers belong to this intermediate period, though not French in origin: Georg F.
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