A treatise on wood engravings : historical and practical . ling. The martyr CockRobin, killed by that malicious archer the Sparrow, is not so interestingas plain Eobin Eedbreast picking up crumbs at a cottage-door in thesnow:— One touch of nature makes the whole world km. Whatever may be the merits or defects of the cuts in those Fables,Bewick most certainly had very little to do with them; for by far thegreater number were designed by Eobert Johnson, and engraved by Temple and William Harvey, while yet in their apprenticeship. In REVIVAL OF WOOD ENGEAVING. 50 n the whole volume there are
A treatise on wood engravings : historical and practical . ling. The martyr CockRobin, killed by that malicious archer the Sparrow, is not so interestingas plain Eobin Eedbreast picking up crumbs at a cottage-door in thesnow:— One touch of nature makes the whole world km. Whatever may be the merits or defects of the cuts in those Fables,Bewick most certainly had very little to do with them; for by far thegreater number were designed by Eobert Johnson, and engraved by Temple and William Harvey, while yet in their apprenticeship. In REVIVAL OF WOOD ENGEAVING. 50 n the whole volume there are not more than three of the largest cutsengraved by Bewick himself.* The tail-pieces in this work will nothear a comparison with those in the Birds; the subjects are often bothtrite and tamely treated; the devil and the gallows—Bewicks two stock-pieces—occur rather too frequently, considering that the book is chieflyintended for the improvement of young minds; and in many instancesnature has been sacrificed in order that the moral might be THE CROW AND THE LAMB. The letter-press was entirely selected and arranged by Bewick himself,and one or two of the fables were of his own writing. Though an excel-lent illustrator of Natural History, Bewick is but an indifferent the work is professedly intended for the instruction of the young,there are certainly a few tail-pieces introduced for the entertainment of themore advanced in years ; and of this kind is the old beggar and his trulllying asleep, and a bull looking over a rail at them. The explanation ofthis subject would certainly have little tendency to improve young , though very fond of introducing the devil in his cuts to frightenthe wicked, does not appear to have been willing that a ranting preachershould in his discourses avail himself of the same character, though toeffect the same purpose, as we learn from the following anecdote relatedby Mr. Atkinson. Cant and hypocrisy he (Bewic
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