A treatise on wood engravings : historical and practical . tail-pieces of this period occur in a volume of Miscel-laneous Poems, original and translated, by several hands. Published * It is not unlikely that the frequency of sucli casts has uiduced many jiersons to sup]?..^etliat nn«t of the cuts of this period were engraved on metal in tlic :i;;niiici of wnod. REVIVAL OF WOOD EXGEAVIXG. 453 by Mr. Concanen, London, printed for J. Peele, octavo, 1724. Thesubjects are, Apollo with a lyre; Minerva with a spear and shield ;two men sifting com; Hercules destroying the hydra; and a manwith a large
A treatise on wood engravings : historical and practical . tail-pieces of this period occur in a volume of Miscel-laneous Poems, original and translated, by several hands. Published * It is not unlikely that the frequency of sucli casts has uiduced many jiersons to sup]?..^etliat nn«t of the cuts of this period were engraved on metal in tlic :i;;niiici of wnod. REVIVAL OF WOOD EXGEAVIXG. 453 by Mr. Concanen, London, printed for J. Peele, octavo, 1724. Thesubjects are, Apollo with a lyre; Minerva with a spear and shield ;two men sifting com; Hercules destroying the hydra; and a manwith a large lantern. They are much superior to any cuts of thesame kind with the mark F. H.; and from the manner in which theyare executed, I am inclined to think that they are the work of theperson who engraved the cuts in Croxalls -^sop. The following isa fac-simile of one of the best of the cuts that I have ever seen withthe mark F. H. It occurs as a tail-piece at the end of the prefaceto Strephons Eevenge: A Satire on the Oxford Toasts, octavo,London, 1724.^-. John Baptist Jackson, an English wood engraver, was, accordingto Papillon, a pupil of the person who engraved the small head-pieces and ornaments in Maittaires Latin Classics, published byTonson and Watts in 1713; and as the cuts in Croxalls ^sop wereprobably engraved by the same person, as has been pre^dously observed,it is not unlikely that Jackson, as his apprentice, might have someshare in their execution. Tliough these cuts were much superior toany that had appeared in England for about a hundred years pre-viously, wood engraving seems to have received but little encourage-ment. Probably from want of employment in his own country,Jackson proceeded to Paris, where he remained several years, chieflyemployed in engraving head-pieces and ornaments for the book-sellers. Papillon, who seems to have borne no good-will towardsJackson, thus speaks of him in the first volume of his Traits de laGravure en Bois. * Two cuts, with the sa
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