This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1886 Excerpt: ...attempts to imitate exactly what is drawn in pen and ink, while the other aims to represent by means of an engraving on wood, all sorts of pictures, whatever department of drawing or painting they may belong to. With this in mind let us look for the steps by which wood-engraving has reached its present condition. In ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1886 Excerpt: ...attempts to imitate exactly what is drawn in pen and ink, while the other aims to represent by means of an engraving on wood, all sorts of pictures, whatever department of drawing or painting they may belong to. With this in mind let us look for the steps by which wood-engraving has reached its present condition. In the chapter on etching, it was shown that the print, or picture, was obtained from a copper plate, by virtue of lines on its surface which had been cut or bitten into the metal. These lines when properly filled with ink would leave their impress upon the paper; that is, when there was a line on the metal, there would be a corresponding line on the paper and when the surface of the metal was left uncut, the paper would receive no impression at all. Briefly, the printing of an etching is done by the etched lines. Now exactly the reverse of all this is true in regard to wood-engraving. Instead of the engraved line doing the printing, it is done by the wood itself, which plays the part of a stamp, or die, in the same manner that letters are used in types. In types, indeed, lead or other metal is used, which are best for the innumerable repetition of small forms; but it was early found that wood was especially well-adapted to making a block which would print well on large surfaces, and which could be easily cut. Very soon after the invention of printing, the practice of woodcutting began; and very simple the process was. All that it attempted was to reproduce black-andwhite drawing in line, and for this purpose the design was carefully copied on a smooth bit of wood, and all the spaces left white in the drawing were carefully cut away with a knife. This process reached a height of special interest when Albert Diirer and men of his school made many ve...
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