A treatise on wood engravings : historical and practical . E. H. Wi:UNEBT HORACE HARRAL FROM COLERIDGES ANCIENT MARINER. Edward H. Wehnert, a member of the New Society of Painters inWater Colours, frequently draws upon wood. He illustrated ColeridgesAncient Mariner, Grimms Tales, Eve of St. Agnes, and contributeddesigns to Bohns edition of Longfellows Poems and to many otherpopular works of poetry and fiction. His style is essentially has recently contributed thirty-four subjects to the Favourite EnglishPoems and completed a number of drawings for Andersens Tales, theelectrotypes of
A treatise on wood engravings : historical and practical . E. H. Wi:UNEBT HORACE HARRAL FROM COLERIDGES ANCIENT MARINER. Edward H. Wehnert, a member of the New Society of Painters inWater Colours, frequently draws upon wood. He illustrated ColeridgesAncient Mariner, Grimms Tales, Eve of St. Agnes, and contributeddesigns to Bohns edition of Longfellows Poems and to many otherpopular works of poetry and fiction. His style is essentially has recently contributed thirty-four subjects to the Favourite EnglishPoems and completed a number of drawings for Andersens Tales, theelectrotypes of which are produced by a new pj-ocess by Mr. W. ARTISTS AND ENGEAVEES OF THE PRESENT DAY. 595^. Geoege Cruikshakk is especially celebratedfor the felicitous hu-mour which he throwsinto every subject thatcomes under his pencilor burin. His worksare legion and allhighly prized, but hisdesigns on wood aremuch less numerousthan his etchings oncopper. Mr. Ruskin, inhis Modern Painters,has lately expatiatedas enthusiastically onthe artistic merits ofMr. Cruikshank as hehas done on those ofMr. Creswick, quotedby us in a previous page. He concludes by saying: Taken all in all, the works of Cruik-L,^ ifefe- . sciisi. shank have the moFt sterling value of anybelonging to this classproduced in present examples,taken from his ThreeCourses and a Dessert,published in BohnsIllustrated Library,will afford some ideaof his peculiar the following pagewe give examples ofhis early work, being illustrations contributed to the Universal Song-ster, a once popularwork to which otherartists including hislate brother Robert
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