American art and American art collections; essays on artistic subjects . The Maids of Cashmere. PHOTO-ETCHING FROM DRAWING Will. H. Low. This picture represents a bevy of maidens at the feast of roses, a charming oriental fete whichMoore has pictured to us in his poem of Lalla Rookh, as follows, — Yet did the maids and matrons leaveTheir veils at home, that brilliant eve •,And there were glancing eyes about,And cheeks, that would not dare shine outIn open day, but thought they mightLook lovely then, because t was night!And all were free and wandering, And all exclaimed to all they met That nev
American art and American art collections; essays on artistic subjects . The Maids of Cashmere. PHOTO-ETCHING FROM DRAWING Will. H. Low. This picture represents a bevy of maidens at the feast of roses, a charming oriental fete whichMoore has pictured to us in his poem of Lalla Rookh, as follows, — Yet did the maids and matrons leaveTheir veils at home, that brilliant eve •,And there were glancing eyes about,And cheeks, that would not dare shine outIn open day, but thought they mightLook lovely then, because t was night!And all were free and wandering, And all exclaimed to all they met That never did the summer bring So gay a feast of roses yet ; The moon had never shed a light So clear as that which blessed them there, The roses neer shone half so bright Nor they themselves looked half so fair. THE HISTORY OF WOOD-ENGRAVING IN AMERICA. PART III. Chapter NGRAVING on type-metal, and occasionally on brass, in relief forletter-press printing has been practised for many years in theUnited States; and is often as well executed as are woodencuts, for the same purpose, on the other side of the writes Isaiah Thomas in his History of Printing, dated take note of it, because in the course of my inquiries I havestumbled upon a little book, with nearly five hundred cutspublished by this same Thomas, at Worcester, Mass., in 1788:five years before Andersons first attempts on wood. The titleof the book is as follows:—A Curious Hieroglyphick Bible; orselect Passages in the Old and New Testaments represented withEmblematical Figures, for the Amusement of Youth, designed chiefly to familiarize tender Age ina pleasing and diverting Manner with early Ideas of the Holy Scriptures: the first WorcesterEdition. It is impossible to say with certainty whether these cuts (generally about an inchsquare, frontispiece and some few larger) are
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