A Treatise on Wood Engraving, Historical and PracticalChatto, William Andrew
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A Treatise on Wood Engraving, Historical and Practical
Chatto, William Andrew
Wood-engraving
Caricature of the Laocoon, after a cut designed by Titian 435
The Good Householder, from a cut printed at London, 1607 437
Virgin and Christ, from a cut designed by Rubens, and
engraved by Christopher Jegher 438
The Infant Christ and John the Baptist, from a cut designed
by Rubens, and engraved by Christopher Jegher 439
Jael and Sisera, from a cut designed by Henry Goltzius, and
engraved by C. Van Sichem 440
Tail-piece, from an old cut on the title-page of the first
known edition of Robin Hood’s Garland, 1670 445
CHAPTER VII.
REVIVAL OF WOOD ENGRAVING, 446-548.
Initial letter A, from a French book, 1698 446
Fox and Goat, from a copper-plate by S. Le Clerc, about
1694 450
The same subject from Croxall’s Æsop’s Fables, 1722 450
The same subject from Bewick’s Fables, 1818-1823 451
English wood-cut with the mark F. H., London, 1724 453
Adam naming the animals, copy of a cut by Papillon, 1734 460
The Pedagogue, from the Ship of Fools, Pynson, 1509 468
The Poet’s Fall, from Two Odes in ridicule of Gray and
Mason, London, 1760 470
Initial letters, T. and B., composed by J. Jackson from
tail-pieces in Bewick’s History of British Birds 471
The house in which Bewick was born, drawn by J. Jackson 472
The Parsonage at Ovingham, drawn by George Balmer 473
Fac-simile of a diagram engraved by Bewick in Hutton’s
Mensuration, 1768-1770 475
The Old Hound, a fac-simile of a cut by Bewick, 1775 476
Original cut of the Old Hound 477
Cuts copied by Bewick from Der Weiss Kunig, and
illustrations of Ovid’s Metamorphoses by Virgilium Solis 483
Boys and Ass, after Bewick 485
Old Man and Horse, ditto 486
Child and young Horse, ditto 487
Ewe and Lamb 488
Old Man and young Wife, ditto 488
Common Duck, ditto 493
Partridge, ditto 495
Woodcock, ditto 496
The drunken Miller, ditto 499
The Snow Man, ditto 499
Old Man and Cat, ditto 500
Crow and Lamb, Bewick’s original cut to the Fable of the
Eagle 503
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