A treatise on wood engravings : historical and practical . In the opposite cut, which forms the compartment to the left, Esau,who is distinguished by his bow and quiver, is seen receiving a bowl ofpottage from his brother Jacob. At the far side of the apartment isseen a kail-pot, suspended from a crook, with something like a hamand a gammon of bacon hanging against the wall. This subject istreated in a style which is thoroughly Dutch. Isaacs family appear to WOOD ENGRAVING. 91 have been lodged in a tolerably comfortable house, with a stock of pro-visions near the chimney nook; and his two sons
A treatise on wood engravings : historical and practical . In the opposite cut, which forms the compartment to the left, Esau,who is distinguished by his bow and quiver, is seen receiving a bowl ofpottage from his brother Jacob. At the far side of the apartment isseen a kail-pot, suspended from a crook, with something like a hamand a gammon of bacon hanging against the wall. This subject istreated in a style which is thoroughly Dutch. Isaacs family appear to WOOD ENGRAVING. 91 have been lodged in a tolerably comfortable house, with a stock of pro-visions near the chimney nook; and his two sons are very like some ofthe figures in the pictures of Teniers, more especially about the legs. ^\\\\\\\ \ wwww \^^\\. The following cut, a copy of that which is the lowest in the page,represents the two prophets or inspired penmen, to whom reference ismade on the two scrolls whose ends may be perceived towards the lowercorners of each arch. The words underneath the figures are a portion ofthe last rhyming verse quoted at page 87. It is from a difference inthe triangular ornament, above the pillar separating the two figures,though not in this identical page, that Heineken chiefly decides on threeof the editions of this book ; though nothing could be more easy than to 92 TROGEESS OF introduce another ornament of a similar kind, in the event of the oritzinaleither being damaged in printing or intentionally effaced. In some ofthe earliest wood-blocks which remain undestroyed by the roughhandling of time there are evident traces of several letters havingbeen broken away, and of the injury being afterwards remedied by theintroduction of a new piece of wood, on which the letters wanting werere-engraved. ^ K
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