A treatise on wood engravings : historical and practical . No. No. 3. Holbein, as exemplified, though but imperfectly, in the two whichare doubtlessly of his designing. None of them have the slightest WOOD ENGEAVING. 383 pretensions to delicacy or excellence of engraving, though they maybe considered as the best that had been executed in this country upto that time. Those which, in my opinion, were not designed byHolbein have the appearance of having been engraved on a frushykind of wood, of comparatively coarse grain. It is not, however,unlikely that this appearance might restdt from the
A treatise on wood engravings : historical and practical . No. No. 3. Holbein, as exemplified, though but imperfectly, in the two whichare doubtlessly of his designing. None of them have the slightest WOOD ENGEAVING. 383 pretensions to delicacy or excellence of engraving, though they maybe considered as the best that had been executed in this country upto that time. Those which, in my opinion, were not designed byHolbein have the appearance of having been engraved on a frushykind of wood, of comparatively coarse grain. It is not, however,unlikely that this appearance might restdt from the feebleness of thedrawing, conjoined with want of skill on the part of the engraver. The following cut will not perhaps form an inappropriate terminationtC the notice of the principal wood engravings which have been ascribed %Sk W )J [^ ^»ft^Kr m m\ s ^ ^^E^ ^ t/{ ^ Muff a/ ^S ^9 ^^B ln^^= sJa--i!L 1 ? to Holbein. It occurs as an illustration of the generation of Christ,Matthew, chapter i, in an edition of the New Testament, printed atZurich, by Froschover, in
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