A treatise on wood engravings : historical and practical . of all the cuts in the first edition is that of theCur Fox at page 270. The tail of the animal, which is too long, andis also incorrectly marked with black near the white tip, was subse-quently altered. In the first edition the characteristic tail-pieces are comparativelyfew ; and several of those which are merely ornamental, displayingneither imagination nor feelicg, are copies of cuts which are frequentin books printed at Leipsic between 1770 and 1780, and which wereprobably engraved by Ungher, a German wood engraver of thatperiod. E
A treatise on wood engravings : historical and practical . of all the cuts in the first edition is that of theCur Fox at page 270. The tail of the animal, which is too long, andis also incorrectly marked with black near the white tip, was subse-quently altered. In the first edition the characteristic tail-pieces are comparativelyfew ; and several of those which are merely ornamental, displayingneither imagination nor feelicg, are copies of cuts which are frequentin books printed at Leipsic between 1770 and 1780, and which wereprobably engraved by Ungher, a German wood engraver of thatperiod. Examples of such tasteless trifles are to be found at pages9, 12, 18, 65, 110, 140, 201, 223, and 401. Ornaments of the samecharacter occur in Heinekens Idee Generale dune Collection complettedEstampes, Leipsic and Vienna, 1771. Bewick was unquestionablybetter acquainted with the history and progress of wood engraving thanthose who talk about the long-lost art were aware of The first ofthe two following cuts is a fac-simile of a tail-piece which occurs in.
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