A treatise on wood engravings : historical and practical . vizrrcLLT Mr. Birket Foster was a pupil of Mr. Landells, who, discerning hisartistic talent, employed him from an early age in the superior depart-ment of his profession. After he commenced on his own account, his firstimportant illustrations were for Longfellows Poetical Works, of whichthe above is a specimen. He has since partly or wholly illustrated,besides those works already mentioned under the name of the engraver,Adamss Allegories, published ; The Book of FavouriteModern Ballads, Poets of the Nineteenth Century
A treatise on wood engravings : historical and practical . vizrrcLLT Mr. Birket Foster was a pupil of Mr. Landells, who, discerning hisartistic talent, employed him from an early age in the superior depart-ment of his profession. After he commenced on his own account, his firstimportant illustrations were for Longfellows Poetical Works, of whichthe above is a specimen. He has since partly or wholly illustrated,besides those works already mentioned under the name of the engraver,Adamss Allegories, published ; The Book of FavouriteModern Ballads, Poets of the Nineteenth Century, Christmas with thePoets, Favourite English Poems, Home Affections, The Merrie Days ofEngland, Barry Cornwalls Dramatic Scenes and Poems, Southeys Lifeof Nelson, Gosses Kivers of the Bible, and many other of the bestworks of the period. In lSo9 he was elected a member of the OldWater Colour Society, and has siuce then devoted himself almost ex-clusively, and with great success, to painting in Water Colours. ARTISTS AKD ENGRAVERS OF THE PRESENT DAY. 559. ^UUM ^il^NNlEL Mr. John Tenniel is a successful illustrator of Historical subjects,and Ballad poetry, and has produced many fine examples of his most recent work is a series of sixty-nine designs for the illustratededition of Moores Lalla Eookh, engraved by the Messrs. Dalziel, whichthe Times of Nov. 1, I860, calls the greatest illustrative achieve-ment of any single hand, and of which we here present an is now engaged in illustrating Shirley Brooks story called TheSilver Cord, in Once a Week ; and in 1857 he contributed a numberof spirited designs to the illustrated edition of Barry Cornwalls PoeticalWorks. Among Mr. Tenniels earlier works are several in the Book ofBritish Ballads, edited by Samuel Carter Hall, in 1843 ; and amonghis popular designs, sketched with a free pencil, are his large cuts in Punch, and his small ones in Punchs Pocket Book. 5GC ARTISTS AND ENORAVERS OF THE PRESENT DAY.
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