American art and American art collections; essays on artistic subjects . to me of the Young Ladys Book: All the cuts were done on a black ground;and all that was done in Boston was executed in that way. In working on the black groundthe copy was reversed by a mirror, and constantly under the engravers eyes. Mr. Crossmanand Mr. Kilburn (with Mr. Mallory pupils of Bowen) confirm his account of the then usualprocedure. General outlines being traced, the engraver had but to closely follow, line byline, the original before him, — a method insuring mechanical exactness, but fatal to the indi-viduali
American art and American art collections; essays on artistic subjects . to me of the Young Ladys Book: All the cuts were done on a black ground;and all that was done in Boston was executed in that way. In working on the black groundthe copy was reversed by a mirror, and constantly under the engravers eyes. Mr. Crossmanand Mr. Kilburn (with Mr. Mallory pupils of Bowen) confirm his account of the then usualprocedure. General outlines being traced, the engraver had but to closely follow, line byline, the original before him, — a method insuring mechanical exactness, but fatal to the indi-viduality of genius, fatal to anything to be called art. Adherence to such a course accountsfor Bowens inferiority to Adams and Anderson. He was, however, a notable man, not only forhis own work, so qualified, but also for the pupils who came from him, — Hartwell, the brothersDevereux, Greenough, Croome, Childs, Crossman, Mallory, and Kilburn. George Loring Brown,the painter, and Hammatt Billings, the architect, began life also as wood-engravers with him. W. -3 t—IO D D O Eh C4 CO 55O \
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