A treatise on wood engravings : historical and practical . Chaplin, 1831; and the subject is the uncle bargaining with the tworuffians for the murder of the children. This cut is freely andefiectively executed, without any display of useless labour. The second is one of the illustrations of the Blind Beggar of BethnalGreen, published by Jennings and Chaplin, in 1832. The subjectrepresents the beggars daughter and her four suitors, namely,—the 534 iii;viv^y:i of wood engraving. gentleman of good degree, the gallant young knight in disguise, themerchant of London, and her masters son. This cut,
A treatise on wood engravings : historical and practical . Chaplin, 1831; and the subject is the uncle bargaining with the tworuffians for the murder of the children. This cut is freely andefiectively executed, without any display of useless labour. The second is one of the illustrations of the Blind Beggar of BethnalGreen, published by Jennings and Chaplin, in 1832. The subjectrepresents the beggars daughter and her four suitors, namely,—the 534 iii;viv^y:i of wood engraving. gentleman of good degree, the gallant young knight in disguise, themerchant of London, and her masters son. This cut, though wellengraved, is scarcely equal to the preceding. It is, however, necessaryto observe that these cuts are not given as specimens of the engraverstalents, but merely as two subjects designed by Mr. Harvey. What has been called the London School of wood engravingproduced nothing that would bear a comparison with the works of. Bewick and his pupils until the late Robert Branston began to engraveon wood. About 1796, the best of the London engravers was J. engraved the cuts for the Cheap Repository, a collection of religiousand moral tracts, printed between 1794 and 1798, and sold by , London, and S. Hazard, Bath. Those cuts, though coarselyexecuted, as might be expected, considering the work for which theywere intended, frequently display considerable merit in the design ; and REVIVAL OF WOOD ENGEAVING. 535 in this respect several of them are scarcely inferior to the cuts diawnand engraved by John Bewick in Dr. Truslers Progress of Man andSociety. Mr. Lee died in March, 1804; and on his decease, hisapprentice, Henry White, went to Newcastle, and served out the re-mainder of his time with Thomas Bewick. James Lee, a son of Mr. , the elder, is also a wood engraver; he executed the portraits inHansards Typographia, 1825.
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