A treatise on wood engravings : historical and practical . were lent to M. Mechel. They are now in the Imperial Library at to Mr. Coxe, who saw them when in M. Mechels possession, they were drawn witha pen, and slightly shaded with Indian ink. Hegner, in his Life of Holbein, speaksslightingly of Mechels engravings, which he says were executed by one of his workmen fromcopies of the pretended original drawings made by an artist named Rudolph Schellenburg ofWinterthur. Those copper-plates certainly appear feeble when compared with the wood-cutin the Lyons work, and Hegners c
A treatise on wood engravings : historical and practical . were lent to M. Mechel. They are now in the Imperial Library at to Mr. Coxe, who saw them when in M. Mechels possession, they were drawn witha pen, and slightly shaded with Indian ink. Hegner, in his Life of Holbein, speaksslightingly of Mechels engravings, which he says were executed by one of his workmen fromcopies of the pretended original drawings made by an artist named Rudolph Schellenburg ofWinterthur. Those copper-plates certainly appear feeble when compared with the wood-cutin the Lyons work, and Hegners criticism on the figure of Eve seems just, though does not approve of it. Hegner says, Let any one compare the figure of Eve underthe tree in Mechels second plate with the second wood-cut; in the former she is sitting in aselegant an attitude as if she belonged to a French family by Boucher.—Boucher, a Frenchpainter, who died in 1770, was famous in his time for the pretty women introduced into hislandscapes. 352 FUETHEE PEOGKESS AND DECLINE OF.
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