A treatise on wood engravings : historical and practical . an edition of Der Weiss Kumg,t printed at Vienna, 1775, andwhich Bewick has copied at page 144 of the first edition of the * The cut of the Giraffe in the edition of 1824 is not the original one engraved by the later cut, which was chiefly engraved by W. W. Temple, one of Bewicks pupils, themarks on the body of the animal appear like so many white-coloured lines crossing each other,and enclosing large irregular spots. t Some account of this work is previously given at page 287. II 2 484< REVIVAL OF WOOD ENGRAVING. Quadrupe
A treatise on wood engravings : historical and practical . an edition of Der Weiss Kumg,t printed at Vienna, 1775, andwhich Bewick has copied at page 144 of the first edition of the * The cut of the Giraffe in the edition of 1824 is not the original one engraved by the later cut, which was chiefly engraved by W. W. Temple, one of Bewicks pupils, themarks on the body of the animal appear like so many white-coloured lines crossing each other,and enclosing large irregular spots. t Some account of this work is previously given at page 287. II 2 484< REVIVAL OF WOOD ENGRAVING. Quadrupeds, 1790. The second, from one of the cuts illustrative ofOvids Metamorphoses, 1569, designed by Virgil Solis,* is copiedin a tail-piece in the first volume of Bewicks Birds, page 330,edition 1797. The following may be mentioned as the best of the tail-piecesin the first edition of the Quadrupeds, and as those which mostdecidedly display Bewicks talent in depicting, without exaggeration,natural and humorous incidents. In this respect he has been excelled
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