A treatise on wood engravings : historical and practical . JOHN MARTIN THOS. WILLIAMS Me. Thomas Williams ranks high as an engraver on wood, and theillustrated works of the last twenty years teem with his of tlic onijraYinfTS in the IMerric Days of England, 1859, are by JOHN MARTIN W. f. GUtKN The only other Illustration which we shall take from Martin andWestalls Bible Prints is the above, engraved by INIr. W. T. Green, whocontinues to exercise his burin with great skill, and has recentlyengraved one of the plates in Merrie Days of l^]ngland, and FavouriteEnglish Poems
A treatise on wood engravings : historical and practical . JOHN MARTIN THOS. WILLIAMS Me. Thomas Williams ranks high as an engraver on wood, and theillustrated works of the last twenty years teem with his of tlic onijraYinfTS in the IMerric Days of England, 1859, are by JOHN MARTIN W. f. GUtKN The only other Illustration which we shall take from Martin andWestalls Bible Prints is the above, engraved by INIr. W. T. Green, whocontinues to exercise his burin with great skill, and has recentlyengraved one of the plates in Merrie Days of l^]ngland, and FavouriteEnglish Poems, and several of Maclises designs for Tennysons Princess. 548 REVIVAL OF WOOD EKGRAVIKG. To this is added, as a vignette finish to the chapter, an engraving recentlyexecuted by him for an illustrated edition of Miltons Paradise Lost,now published in Bohns Library, and already mentioned at page 531. One of the principal wood engravers in Germany, about the timethat Bewick began to practise the art in England, was Unger. In 1779he published a tract, containing five cuts of his own engraving, discussingthe question whether Albert Durer actually engraved on wood : hisdecision is in the negative. In the same year, his son also publisheda dissertation, illustrated with wood-cuts, on the prog
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