A treatise on wood engravings : historical and practical . Sculptures and bas-reliefs of any kind are generally best representedby simple outlines, with delicate parallel lines, running horizontally, torepresent the ground. The following cut is from 9, design by Flaxmanfor the front of a gold snuff-box made by Eundell and Bridge for GeorgeTV. about 1827. The subject of this design was intended to com-. memorate the General Peace concluded in 1814: to the left Agricultureis seen flourishing under the auspices of Peace; while to the right ayouthful figure is seen placing a wreath above the helme
A treatise on wood engravings : historical and practical . Sculptures and bas-reliefs of any kind are generally best representedby simple outlines, with delicate parallel lines, running horizontally, torepresent the ground. The following cut is from 9, design by Flaxmanfor the front of a gold snuff-box made by Eundell and Bridge for GeorgeTV. about 1827. The subject of this design was intended to com-. memorate the General Peace concluded in 1814: to the left Agricultureis seen flourishing under the auspices of Peace; while to the right ayouthful figure is seen placing a wreath above the helmet of a warrior;the trophy indicates his services, and opposite to him is seated a figureof Victory. The three other sides, and the top and bottom, were also THE PRACTICE OF WOOD ENGRAVING. 591 embellished with figures and ornaments in relief designed by whole of the dies were cut in steel by Henning and Son—sowell known to admirers of art from their beautiful reduced copies andrestorations of the sculptures of the Parthenon preserved in the BritishMuseum—and from these dies the plates of gold composing the boxwere struck, so that the figures appear in slight relief A blank spacewas left in the top of the box for an enamel portrait of the King, whichwas afterwards inserted, surrounded with diamonds, and the margin ofthe lid w^as also ornamented in the same manner. This box is per
Size: 3042px × 821px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1880, booksubjectwoodengraving, bookye
