American art and American art collections; essays on artistic subjects . nce on what I find of previous work, — again excepting that by- .;-,/! w ./- i --,oS-iSEAifal 1~? Adams. In 1850, on the death of R. Roberts, Childs took hisplace as superintendent of en-graving for the Tract Society;and both by his attention toprinting and by his capacity asan engraver seems to have beenmainly instrumental in improv-ing the appearance of theirbooks, and in directing the greater careful-ness in engraving. I knewMr. Childs, says a contempo-rary well able to give judgmentconcerning him, whe
American art and American art collections; essays on artistic subjects . nce on what I find of previous work, — again excepting that by- .;-,/! w ./- i --,oS-iSEAifal 1~? Adams. In 1850, on the death of R. Roberts, Childs took hisplace as superintendent of en-graving for the Tract Society;and both by his attention toprinting and by his capacity asan engraver seems to have beenmainly instrumental in improv-ing the appearance of theirbooks, and in directing the greater careful-ness in engraving. I knewMr. Childs, says a contempo-rary well able to give judgmentconcerning him, when he wasa young man. He was thendistinguished for industrioushabits, drawing with his friendOBrien at the National Acad-emy at night, and trying hishand at other times in water-colors and crayons. He wasan enthusiastic student of theEnglish school of book illus-tration of that period : unfor-tunately a period rather of deli-cate manipulation than of ar-tistic vigor. The engraversof his time universally accordedhim the foremost rank; andhis influence on those working. Engraved by Childs.— Drawn by Darley. From Knickerbockers History of New York. J. B. Lippincott & Co. AMERICAN ART 447
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