. Prints; a brief review of their technique and history . h Richard Earlom proves himself a 113 PRINTS gifted interpreter of Huysiim. The variedsurfaces, the dehcate bloom on the fruit, andall those little touches dear to the Dutchpainter — sparkling dewdrops, insects, thevelvety underside of an overturned leaf —are faithfully reproduced. AVe almost seemto see the actual colors of the painting, socarefully have the values been gauged. Inno other process could the painting havebeen transcribed more pleasingly. The men-tion of Earlom as the engraver of a largeseries of landscape plates, the Libe
. Prints; a brief review of their technique and history . h Richard Earlom proves himself a 113 PRINTS gifted interpreter of Huysiim. The variedsurfaces, the dehcate bloom on the fruit, andall those little touches dear to the Dutchpainter — sparkling dewdrops, insects, thevelvety underside of an overturned leaf —are faithfully reproduced. AVe almost seemto see the actual colors of the painting, socarefully have the values been gauged. Inno other process could the painting havebeen transcribed more pleasingly. The men-tion of Earlom as the engraver of a largeseries of landscape plates, the Liber Verita-tis, after sketches by Claude Lorrain, leadsus to J. M. W. Turner, to whom these platessuggested the well-known Liber Studio-rum, but of this more in our review of thenineteenth century. In the matter of woodcut, little need besaid in this Ijrief outline, aside from Jack-sons chiaroscuros, until we come to ThomasBewick and with him to an important re-vival of the relief process in modified recognized the possibilities of the 114. PLOWER AND FRUIT PIECERichard Earlom ENGLAND wood block, if cut across the grain, instead ofplank wise as used for the old woodcut. Theplank block necessitates the use of the knife;a cross-grain block of boxwood on the otherhand, permits the use of that king of instru-ments, the graver. Wood - engraving onceestablished by Bewick, and elaborated byhis followers, rapidly spread over Europe,ultimately to reach its highest form of tech-nical perfection in the United States. IX THE UNITED STATES In early days, the American colonies wereindifferent if not inhospitable to the finearts. Only portraitiue and expressions ofpatriotism fonnd a welcome, both in paint-ing and engraving. These, with some maps,diagrams, and views, gave partial employ-ment to a few engravers, with such addi-tions to their number as landed from timeto time from Europe for a sojourn more orless prolonged. Prominent among early ar-rivals was Peter Pelham, an artis
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