American art and American art collections; essays on artistic subjects . e owned, however, that we never see him at hisbest. Bad printing is not favorable to an en-gravers reputation, nor does good printing availon worn blocks. The only specimens we areable to give are but phototypes from ill-printedimpressions. After all deductions, his is the honorof being the first wood-engraver in America. For the rest, so remarkable was the man, soworthy of honor for himself as well as for thevariety of his knowledges and doings, that hecan well afford to be rated lower in this one of after Bewick. his en
American art and American art collections; essays on artistic subjects . e owned, however, that we never see him at hisbest. Bad printing is not favorable to an en-gravers reputation, nor does good printing availon worn blocks. The only specimens we areable to give are but phototypes from ill-printedimpressions. After all deductions, his is the honorof being the first wood-engraver in America. For the rest, so remarkable was the man, soworthy of honor for himself as well as for thevariety of his knowledges and doings, that hecan well afford to be rated lower in this one of after Bewick. his endeavors, can well submit to be considered under this one aspect of engraver on woodas first in time only, not in the average of the work he did. Of his faculty as an engraver oncopper and as a designer, it has not been within my province to speak. The esteem of hisartist contemporaries was shown by his election, in May, 1843, as an honorary member of theNational Academy of Design. He had also been a member of the earlier New York Academyof the Fine Arts. W. J.
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