A treatise on wood engravings : historical and practical . —//. White. much superior to the others of his execution. The following, however,may be referred to as specimens of the general excellence of his cuts :—The title-page to Puckles Club, 1817, and the cuts of Moroso, News-monger, Swearer, Wiseman, and Xantippe in the same work ; the Trout,the Tench, the Salmon, the Chub, and a group of small fish, consisting • The Salmon, Chub, and group of small fish are given on the preceding page from tlieactual cuts referred to. REVIVAL OF WOOD ENGKAVING. 543 of the Minnow, the Loach, the Bull-h
A treatise on wood engravings : historical and practical . —//. White. much superior to the others of his execution. The following, however,may be referred to as specimens of the general excellence of his cuts :—The title-page to Puckles Club, 1817, and the cuts of Moroso, News-monger, Swearer, Wiseman, and Xantippe in the same work ; the Trout,the Tench, the Salmon, the Chub, and a group of small fish, consisting • The Salmon, Chub, and group of small fish are given on the preceding page from tlieactual cuts referred to. REVIVAL OF WOOD ENGKAVING. 543 of the Minnow, the Loach, the Bull-head, and the Stickle-back, inMajors edition of Waltons Angler; ^^ many of the cuts in ButlersHudibras, published by Baldwyn in 1819, and reprinted by Bohn, in1859, of which we annex an example ; the portrait of Butler, prefixed. Jalm 7%o>nifm. to an edition of his Eemains, published in 1827; and The Two Swine,The Mole become a Connoisseur, Love and Friendship, and the portraitof Northcote, in the second series of Northcotes Fables. One of hislatest cuts is the beautifully executed portrait of Milton and hisdaughters, after a design by Mr. Harvey, already given at page following cut—a reduced copy of one of the plates in the EakesProgress—by Mr. Thompson, engraved a few years ago for a projectededition of Hogarths Graphic Works, of which only about a dozencuts were completed, is one of the best specimens of the art thathas been executed in modern times. In the engraving of small * Bewick was accustomed to speak highly of the cuts of fish in this beautiful work(several of which are given on the previous pages): the Salmon, engraved by J. Thompson,and the Eel, by H. White, he especially admired. Among others scarcely less excellentare the Pike, by R. Branston ; and the Carp, the Grayling, and the
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