American art and American art collections; essays on artistic subjects . P3 Hi HH -! |? H H i» m m CO & is Pi < Pio & o 1—I cu s 3 Eh THE HISTORY OF WOOD-ENGRAVING IN AMERICA. PART VI. Chapter STAYED consideration of Harper s Magazine in order to re-sume my notice of it at the date at which I have now to takeup its competitor. Scribner s Magazine was started in Novem-ber, 1871, and for four or five years the two magazines{Scribners and Harpers) preserved a pretty fair level, — withlittle of importance in either in the matter of engraving, onlysome improvement in paper and printin
American art and American art collections; essays on artistic subjects . P3 Hi HH -! |? H H i» m m CO & is Pi < Pio & o 1—I cu s 3 Eh THE HISTORY OF WOOD-ENGRAVING IN AMERICA. PART VI. Chapter STAYED consideration of Harper s Magazine in order to re-sume my notice of it at the date at which I have now to takeup its competitor. Scribner s Magazine was started in Novem-ber, 1871, and for four or five years the two magazines{Scribners and Harpers) preserved a pretty fair level, — withlittle of importance in either in the matter of engraving, onlysome improvement in paper and printing. In Scribner, duringthat period, I remark nothing very extraordinary save a generaltendency toward fineness; a few good portraits; and a seriesof capital cuts (1875), from Morans drawings, which appear tohave been afterwards used (ill-used, so far as printing went) inthe Governmental Report of Professor Powells Exploration ofthe Colorado River. The subjects of these cuts (engraved by Bookhout, Bogert, King, Smith-wick, Nichol, Miiller, and others) demanded a certain degree of minuteness; and Moransdistinct drawing helped toward clearness and effectiveness in the engraving. These seem tohave been
Size: 1574px × 1587px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade18, booksubjectart, booksubjectartists
