American art and American art collections; essays on artistic subjects . he must give him that. It was more than a year after that before Anderson venturedto engrave elaborate pictures on the wood. The first of these were for Durell, the date ofwhich Lossing gives as 1794, showing that the previous statement of 1794 as the time of hisfirst acquaintance with Bewick and box-wood must be wrong, — most likely a misprint. BewicksQuadrupeds, however, Anderson himself tells us in his Diary (this quoted too by Lossing) hefirst saw on the 17th of August, 1795. The book first seen may have been The Look
American art and American art collections; essays on artistic subjects . he must give him that. It was more than a year after that before Anderson venturedto engrave elaborate pictures on the wood. The first of these were for Durell, the date ofwhich Lossing gives as 1794, showing that the previous statement of 1794 as the time of hisfirst acquaintance with Bewick and box-wood must be wrong, — most likely a misprint. BewicksQuadrupeds, however, Anderson himself tells us in his Diary (this quoted too by Lossing) hefirst saw on the 17th of August, 1795. The book first seen may have been The Looking-Glassfor the Mind, an earlier work of Bewick. In 1794 then, at the age of nineteen, having given a year to experiments on the wood, hewas actually, for William Durell, a New York publisher, copying these Looking-Glass cuts stillupon type metal, when, the work about one third done, he felt satisfied that he could do thembetter upon wood; and in September of that year attempted one of them in the new are extracts from his Diary: — 406 AMERICAN ART. From the Looking-Glass of the Mind. Sept. 24. — This morning I was quite discouraged onseeing a crack in the box-wood. Employed as usual atthe Doctors. Came home to dinner, glued the wood, andbegan again with fresh hopes of producing a good wood-engraving. Sept. 26. — This morning rose at five oclock. Tooka little walk. Engraved. Employed during the chief partof the forenoon in taking out medicine. Came homeafter dinner and finished. the wooden cut. Was prettywell satisfied with the impression, and so was the turner to prepare the other remainder of the book was done on wood. [In1800 a new edition, brought out by Longworth, was altogether on wood.] Thenceforth type-metal was discarded, and Anderson became an ENGRAVER ON WOOD. In 1795 he was licensed to practise medicine. When, soon after, the yellow-fever prevailedin New York, he was appointed by the health commissioners of the c
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