A treatise on wood engravings : historical and practical . .OHN MXRTIS E. Me. Ebenezer Landells, the engraver of this beautiful cut, hasquite recently been lost to us. He was projector, and for a long timeproprietor, of The Ladies Illustrated Newspaper, and has engraved animmense number of subjects of all JOHN MARTIN \V. H. FOWIS The talented engraver of the present subject has already been named,with commendation, at page 544. We learn that the sum paid him forengraving it was fifteen guineas, being three guineas more than theaverage price. Mr. Wm. Bagg, now a successful d
A treatise on wood engravings : historical and practical . .OHN MXRTIS E. Me. Ebenezer Landells, the engraver of this beautiful cut, hasquite recently been lost to us. He was projector, and for a long timeproprietor, of The Ladies Illustrated Newspaper, and has engraved animmense number of subjects of all JOHN MARTIN \V. H. FOWIS The talented engraver of the present subject has already been named,with commendation, at page 544. We learn that the sum paid him forengraving it was fifteen guineas, being three guineas more than theaverage price. Mr. Wm. Bagg, now a successful draftsman of anatomicalsubjects, made this and all the other drawings on the blocks at therate of five guineas each, and Mr. John Martin had ten guineas eachfor the designs. As the volume contains 144 sul)jects it must have cost REVIVAL OF WOOD ENGRAVING. 547 the projectors, Messrs. Bull and Churton, upwards of four thousandouineas : it may now be bought for a dozen shillings.
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