A treatise on wood engravings : historical and practical . were called byf .J^^HC^KS!! ^^^ writers viticulce, or vignettes, in consequence of their being frequently ornamented with flourishes inthe maimer of vine branches or shoots. The letterC, forming the commencement of this paragraph, isan example of an old vignette; it is copied from a manuscriptapparently of the thirteenth century, formerly belonging to themonastery of Durham, but now in the British Museum. Subse-quently the word was used to signify any large ornament at thetop of a page; in the seventeenth century all kinds of printerso
A treatise on wood engravings : historical and practical . were called byf .J^^HC^KS!! ^^^ writers viticulce, or vignettes, in consequence of their being frequently ornamented with flourishes inthe maimer of vine branches or shoots. The letterC, forming the commencement of this paragraph, isan example of an old vignette; it is copied from a manuscriptapparently of the thirteenth century, formerly belonging to themonastery of Durham, but now in the British Museum. Subse-quently the word was used to signify any large ornament at thetop of a page; in the seventeenth century all kinds of printersornaments, such as flowers, head and tail-pieces, were generallytermed vignettes; and more recently the word has been used toexpress ail kinds of wood-cuts or copper-plate engravings which,like the group from the Village Festival, are not inclosed within g\a definite border, Eabelais uses the word to denote certainornaments of goldsmiths work on the scabbard of a swordar countryman Lydgate thus employs it in his Troy \ THE PEACTICE OF AVOOD ENGEAVING. 617. 618 THE PKACTTCE OF WOOD ENGEAVING. Book to denote the sculptured foliage and tracery at the sides of awindow: And if I should rehearsen liy and byThe corve knots, by craft and masonry,The fresh embowing with virges right as lines,And the housing full of rich coining, the lusty battlements,Vinettes numing in easements. The additional specimens of ornamental capitals on the precedingpage are chiefly taken from Shaws Alphabets, in which Mill be found agreat variety of capitals of all ages. Before introducing any examples of concave lowering in the middleof a cut, it seems necessary to give first a familiar illustration of theprinciple, in order that what is subsequently said upon this subjectmay be the more readily understood.—The crown-piece of George IV.,which every reader can refer to, will afford the necessary the head of the King on the obverse, and the figures of St. George,the horse, and
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