American art and American art collections; essays on artistic subjects . 496 AMERICAN ART. very excellent engraving;also because I think. too good an en-graver to need the aid ofso slovenly a method. Hecould have obtained allthe delicacy and lightnesshe required with pure andsimple lines. The samefault occurs yet more fla-grantly in other cuts towhich, but for that, Icould have given unquali-fied praise: Annins Altorf(page 64) ; and The Scout(page 126); Miillers Onthe Sod (page 127) ; Birdsin the Forest (page 169),by Smithwick & this last the birds areremarkably good; but th
American art and American art collections; essays on artistic subjects . 496 AMERICAN ART. very excellent engraving;also because I think. too good an en-graver to need the aid ofso slovenly a method. Hecould have obtained allthe delicacy and lightnesshe required with pure andsimple lines. The samefault occurs yet more fla-grantly in other cuts towhich, but for that, Icould have given unquali-fied praise: Annins Altorf(page 64) ; and The Scout(page 126); Miillers Onthe Sod (page 127) ; Birdsin the Forest (page 169),by Smithwick & this last the birds areremarkably good; but thecross-lining behind is un-sightly, and the unreturned lines give a dirty look to the whole. There is a good cut bythe same engravers (page 55), A Surprise, after William Sidney Mount. Hoskin has twocapital cuts, 0}t the Kern River (page 99), with a pure and firm line and good gradation oftone, and Beverly Beach (page 63), very delicately rendered; Kruell has some first-rateportraits; Harley, a Winter Scene (page 84), excellent and refined. Wolfs clever engravingfrom a clever sketc
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