A treatise on wood engravings : historical and practical . ( harlc:> Otni/ REVIVAL OF WOOD ENGEAVING. 533 majority of artists of the present day; and to his excellence in thisrespect, wood engraving is chiefly indebted for the very great encourage-ment which it has of late received in this country. The two cuts on pages 533 and 534 are also from drawings by ; and both are printed from casts. The first is one of theillustrations of the Children in the Wood, published by Jennings and. Chaplin, 1831; and the subject is the uncle bargaining with the tworuffians for the murder of the ch
A treatise on wood engravings : historical and practical . ( harlc:> Otni/ REVIVAL OF WOOD ENGEAVING. 533 majority of artists of the present day; and to his excellence in thisrespect, wood engraving is chiefly indebted for the very great encourage-ment which it has of late received in this country. The two cuts on pages 533 and 534 are also from drawings by ; and both are printed from casts. The first is one of theillustrations of the Children in the Wood, published by Jennings and. Chaplin, 1831; and the subject is the uncle bargaining with the tworuffians for the murder of the children. This cut is freely andefiectively executed, without any display of useless labour. The second is one of the illustrations of the Blind Beggar of BethnalGreen, published by Jennings and Chaplin, in 1832. The subjectrepresents the beggars daughter and her four suitors, namely,—the 534 iii;viv^y:i of wood engraving. gentleman of good degree, the gallant young knight in disguise, themerchant of London, and her masters son. This cut, though wellengraved, is scarcely equal to the preceding. It is, however, necessaryto observe that these cuts are not given as specimens of the engraverstalents, but merely as two subjects designed by Mr. Harvey. What has been called the London School of wood engravingproduced nothing that would bear a comparison with the works of
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