American art and American art collections; essays on artistic subjects . s. What I havegathered else has been from correspondence or conversationwith the older men yet living, impartially collating the same;and from careful examination of whatever I could obtain accessDesigned by l. s. Ipsen. to 0f ^e[r ancj 0f fae iater workS- Of five hundred engravers (more or less) of the present day what could I write? Even their names cannot be collected,nor any recollection had of many who are dead and gone. To attempt biographical noticeshad been a vain task. So I have only cared, except in two exceptio
American art and American art collections; essays on artistic subjects . s. What I havegathered else has been from correspondence or conversationwith the older men yet living, impartially collating the same;and from careful examination of whatever I could obtain accessDesigned by l. s. Ipsen. to 0f ^e[r ancj 0f fae iater workS- Of five hundred engravers (more or less) of the present day what could I write? Even their names cannot be collected,nor any recollection had of many who are dead and gone. To attempt biographical noticeshad been a vain task. So I have only cared, except in two exceptional cases, for a review ofthe rise and progress of the art, with such instances as I could select of the best and mostrepresentative character. I have endeavored to be fair in my judgments; and if sometimes Ihave omitted names or lost sight of works that ought to have been mentioned and noticed, ithas been from sheer oversight, not with intention. I have here to thank both engravers andpublishers for the facilities they have afforded me in my work. So much as At the outset I may glance at a report, not without show of probability, that Franklin cutthe ornaments for his Poor Richards Almanac in this way ; that is, on metal, in the manner ofa wood-cut, for surface printing. He may have done so. Blake the painter did such metalplates as well as wood-cuts. The process is the same. Nevertheless, it is to Dr. AlexanderAnderson that we may rightly ascribe the honor of being the first engraver on wood in , in his Arts of Design, speaks of an eccentric genius, one John Roberts, a Scotchman, 402 AMERICAN ART of whom Anderson might have learned the art. I believe this also to be only rumor, based onthe fact of Andersons having been acquainted with-the man, a miniature-painter and copper-engraver, and having engraved on copper with and for him. The first knowledge of box-woodbeing used for engraving may perhaps have been gained from Roberts, the date of his arrivali
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