A treatise on wood engravings : historical and practical . h give suchefiect to the large cuts of Durer and Burgmair. It is likely that large cuts of this kind wereintended to be pasted on the walls of rooms, to serve at once for instruction and ornament,like King Charless Golden Rules and the Royal Game of Goose in later times.—To thisnote Mr. Jackson adds in his annotated copy: The drawing appears to have been executedby an artist who was rather partial to cross-hatching, and the engraving by one who knewhow to render every line before him with a degree of sharpness and delicacy by no meansc
A treatise on wood engravings : historical and practical . h give suchefiect to the large cuts of Durer and Burgmair. It is likely that large cuts of this kind wereintended to be pasted on the walls of rooms, to serve at once for instruction and ornament,like King Charless Golden Rules and the Royal Game of Goose in later times.—To thisnote Mr. Jackson adds in his annotated copy: The drawing appears to have been executedby an artist who was rather partial to cross-hatching, and the engraving by one who knewhow to render every line before him with a degree of sharpness and delicacy by no meanscoomon at that period. WOOD ENGEA\aNG. 437 on separate pieces of wood, and not on the same block as the cutabove them. From one or two worm-holes, which have been in the block whenit was printed in 1607, and which are apparent in the impression,it seems probable that this cut had been engraved some time previousto the date which appears at the bottom. As it is, however, very likelythat the block was of pear-tree, which is extremely liable to the attacks.
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