A treatise on wood engravings : historical and practical . have been published or editedby Mr. Cundall. Among them may be named, Favourite EnglishPoems, published by Low and Co., in 1859 ; Ehymes and Roundelayes,Jioutledge, 1858; Goldsmiths Poetical Works; and Lockharts SpanishBallads, published by Murray. The present specimen is from BohnsIllustrated edition of Longfellows Poems, in which the Miles Standishis chiefly illustrated by the designs of Mr. Absolon, and entirely engravedby Me. Thomas Bolton, an artist of considerable repute, whose nameappears in many of the books quoted in these pag
A treatise on wood engravings : historical and practical . have been published or editedby Mr. Cundall. Among them may be named, Favourite EnglishPoems, published by Low and Co., in 1859 ; Ehymes and Roundelayes,Jioutledge, 1858; Goldsmiths Poetical Works; and Lockharts SpanishBallads, published by Murray. The present specimen is from BohnsIllustrated edition of Longfellows Poems, in which the Miles Standishis chiefly illustrated by the designs of Mr. Absolon, and entirely engravedby Me. Thomas Bolton, an artist of considerable repute, whose nameappears in many of the books quoted in these pages, and among others,in the Poems and Songs of Eobert Burns. Mr. Bolton has just invented a process by which the powers ofphotography may be applied direct to the production of subjects fromnature or art on wood, and from which the engraving can be made with-out the intervention of drawing. We annex his first specimen ; othersare about to appear in the illustrated edition of IVliss WinkworthsLyra G-ermanica. ARTISTS AND ENGEAVEKS OF THE PRESENT DAY. I I*. T-BOL, BOITON This specimen of Mr. Boltons new process is taken from thewell-known relief of Flaxman, Deliver us from eviV It is one ofthe first successful photographs on wood, and was printed andengraved by Mr. Thomas Bolton, from Mr. Leightons negative. R R * 578* ARTISTS AND ENGKAVERS OF THE PRESENT DAY.
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