American art and American art collections; essays on artistic subjects . A Bride of Old PHOTOGRAVURE. This is from an excellent drawing, by Louis Meynelle, which aptly illustrates the followingquotation from Ode to Memory : — Large dowries doth the raptured eyeTo the young spirit present When first she is wed ;And like a bride of old In triumph led,With music and sweet showers Of festal flowers,Unto the dwelling she must sway. THE HISTORY OF WOOD-ENGRAVING IN PART II. Chapter Thirty-sixth. HE beginning of engraving made by Anderson others himself had only four pupils: Gar
American art and American art collections; essays on artistic subjects . A Bride of Old PHOTOGRAVURE. This is from an excellent drawing, by Louis Meynelle, which aptly illustrates the followingquotation from Ode to Memory : — Large dowries doth the raptured eyeTo the young spirit present When first she is wed ;And like a bride of old In triumph led,With music and sweet showers Of festal flowers,Unto the dwelling she must sway. THE HISTORY OF WOOD-ENGRAVING IN PART II. Chapter Thirty-sixth. HE beginning of engraving made by Anderson others himself had only four pupils: Garret Lansing, — I quotefrom Lossing, — of the old Lansing family of Albany; WilliamMorgan, of New York; John H. Hall, of Albany; and his (own)daughter Ann, who became the wife of Andrew Maverick, acopperplate-engraver. LANSING received instructions in the year1804, and was the second wood-engraver in America. He re-turned to Albany, and began business, depending for employ-ment on Anderson, who sent him box-wood and drawings bythe Albany sloop. In 1806, (still from Lossing,) he wasmarried to a young lady of wealth, as fortunes were estimatedin those days, and went to Boston for the purpose of practising his art there, but was solittle encouraged that he went back, and afterwards made his home in New York. He was skilful in the engraving of machinery. I cannot recover anything of his work. MORGAN engraved well, but abandoned the graver for the pencil. Though
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