American art and American art collections; essays on artistic subjects . o p H rt O 00 PL, H hi M K> O ij [inO £ (H J w <l V, P3 £ p Pi pq P AMERICAN ART 413. From • Paul and Virginia. I find no date for the Fables of Pilpay (republished byHurd and Houghton), some fifty or more small cuts fol-lowing the designs of an English edition, but better en-graved, says Lossing. They are of Andersons best work,better in command of line and finer than his ordinary work;and may perhaps be placed about this time, but I onlyhazard a guess. Somewhere at this date also I would lookfor a Paul and Virgini
American art and American art collections; essays on artistic subjects . o p H rt O 00 PL, H hi M K> O ij [inO £ (H J w <l V, P3 £ p Pi pq P AMERICAN ART 413. From • Paul and Virginia. I find no date for the Fables of Pilpay (republished byHurd and Houghton), some fifty or more small cuts fol-lowing the designs of an English edition, but better en-graved, says Lossing. They are of Andersons best work,better in command of line and finer than his ordinary work;and may perhaps be placed about this time, but I onlyhazard a guess. Somewhere at this date also I would lookfor a Paul and Virginia, of which I have only seen four orfive cuts, copies of course, but with delicacy of line andtouch not usual with him. For the twenty years followingthe two Ridinger and Teniers cuts I can find nothing , not very orderly or regular in his list of works, hasthat width of gap. I am disposed, however, to place heresome illustrations to Peter Parleys Magazine and other pub-lications of the same author, and a series of large and rathercoarse Bible cuts. (See next page.) There seems to havebeen no encouragement for such work as he proved himself
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