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Title: A treatise on wood engravings : historical and practical
Year: 1881 (1880s)
Authors: Chatto, William Andrew, 1799-1864 Jackson, John, 1801-1848 Bohn, Henry G. (Henry George), 1796-1884
Subjects: Wood-engraving
Publisher: New York : J. W. Bouton
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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artists from Ducciodown to Meccarino, who have produced the effect of the richest mosaic, merely by insertinggrey marble into white, and hatching both with black mastic. The grandest composition isthe History of Abraham, a figure which is unfortunately multiplied in the same compart-ments ; but, when grasping the knife, tlie patriarch is truly sublime. These works layexposed at least for a hundred years to the general tread, and have been rather improvedtn;Mi defaced by the attrition ; for one female figure which had never been trodden looksharsher than the rest. Those of the choir were opportunely covered two centuiies ago.—Forsyths Italy, p. 102, 2nd Edit. WOOD ENGRAVING. 433 to represent the element of water. In the original the impression isfrom four blocks ; one with the outlines and shaded parts black, as in thecopy here given ; the other three communicating different tints of sepia.Henry Goltzius died in 1617. His mark, an H combined with a G, isseen at the bottom of the cut.
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The cuts contained in a work on ancient and modern costume, printedat Venice in 1590,* are frequently described as having been drawn byTitian and engraved by his brother, Cesare Vecellio. That this personmight have been a relation of Titian, whose family name was Vecelli, isnot unlikely, but it is highly improbable that he was his brother; for • The following is the title of this work, which is a large octavo : De gli HabitiAntichi et Moderni di diverse Parti del Mondo Libri due, fatti da Caesare Vecellio, & conDiscorsi da lui dichiriati. In Venetia, md.xc. This work is thus mentioned in the notes toRogerss Italy: Among the Habiti Antichi, in that admirable book of wood-cuts ascribed toTitian, (A. D. 1590,) there is one entitled Sposa Venetiana Ji Castello. It was taken from anold painting in the Scuola di S. Giovanni EvangeUsta, and by the writer is believed torepresent one of the brides here described.—Italy, p. 257, note. Edit. 1S30. F F •t34< FURTHER PROGRESS AND DECL

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