Wood engraving of the commencement of the sixteenth century.
The manual or indirect processes are wax engraving, wood engraving, engraving on copper and on stone, plain lithography, and chromolithography.
Lithography, wood engraving, drawing and painting, are also taught in schools of design.
Much and long-continued toil is requisite for success in wood engraving.
Wood engraving is a business adapted to women, as it requires mostly patience and application, and but little physical strength.
It is necessary to glance briefly at some work issued before 1855, and yet it would be superfluous to re-traverse ground already well covered in The History of Wood Engraving, by Chatto and Jackson, with its supplementary chapter by H.
The figure is from a wood engraving, but the effect may be produced by lines, the black parts being considered as simply broad black lines.
The figure is obviously a wood engraving, but it presents the varying degrees of shade or shadow with sufficient accuracy to form a good example to copy and brush shade with India ink.
Thomas Bewick, who revived the art of wood engraving in England, was apprenticed to Ralph Beilby, as a copperplate engraver, in 1767.
Wood engraving, being no exception to other arts, demands conditions necessary for the production of perfect work.
Stone engraving is the art of countries possessing marble and gems; wood engraving, of countries overgrown with forest; metal engraving, of countries possessing treasures of silver and gold.
The quickly made and comparatively inexpensive process plates have not only taken the place of wood engraving, but have increased the field of illustration to a very large extent.
Wood engraving is almost a thing of the past, and many who are in a position to know predict that after the present generation of wood engravers has passed out of existence, artistic wood engraving will be a lost art.
A wood engraving, by Edmund Evans, from the original drawing by Kate Greenaway.
Wood engraving was a craft to be learned, with a career for the apprentice.
And it is this system (inter alia) which is taught in technical schools, where the knowledge of process is taking the place of wood engraving.
They will be older by the end of the century, but not as old then as some of our best and experienced illustrators who keep to wood engraving.
The modern process of reproduction has introduced its own pleasant qualities into journalism, and because they are different in effect they do not rival the effect of wood engraving.
These special proofs show all the charm of wood engraving.
Illustration: Initial Letter from The Cornhill] As for the art of wood engraving itself, we hope it will now have a future like that which the arts of lithography and etching are enjoying.
The life of any art is safe while it commands, as wood engraving does, the production of any particular effect in a way that cannot be rivalled.
On this cover was printed a wood engraving of the arms of Castile and Leon, together with a Club, a Sword, a Cup, and a piece of Money, the marks of the four suits of Spanish cards.
A Treatise on Wood Engraving, Historical and Practical, p.
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