item: #1 of 4
          id: 22574
      author: Sumner, Charles
       title: The Best Portraits in Engraving
        date: None
       words: 7777
      flesch: 63
     summary: His print of HENRI DE LORRAINE, COMTE D'HARCOURT, known as _Cadet à la Perle_, from the pearl in the ear, with the date 1667, is often placed at the head of engraved portraits, although not particularly pleasing or interesting. In any considerable collection, portraits occupy an important place.
    keywords: art; artist; beauty; engraver; engraving; illustration; life; longhi; painter; painting; picture; portraits; sidenote; teacher; time; work
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        item: #2 of 4
          id: 27268
      author: Ruskin, John
       title: Ariadne Florentina: Six Lectures on Wood and Metal Engraving
        date: None
       words: 60696
      flesch: 70
     summary: Although, however, I do not now press further my cavils at the triumph of modern line engraving, I must assign to you, in few words, the reason of its recent decline. But is this necessarily a disadvantage? _Absolutely_, an immense disadvantage,--a woodcut never can be so beautiful or good a thing as a painting, or line engraving.
    keywords: art; artist; bewick; black; book; botticelli; church; color; course; cut; day; death; design; drawing; dürer; engraver; engraving; face; florence; florentine; form; good; greek; hand; holbein; lecture; life; light; like; lines; look; man; master; means; men; metal; mind; observe; painting; picture; plate; power; sandro; school; shade; sibyl; study; subject; things; think; thought; time; use; way; white; wood; work; years; | |
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        item: #3 of 4
          id: 34869
      author: Hill, Thomas George
       title: The Essentials of Illustration A Practical Guide to the Reproduction of Drawings & Photographs for the Use of Scientists & Others
        date: None
       words: 21693
      flesch: 66
     summary: Photogravure plates must be hand printed (photogravure printing on rotary machines is not considered here), and skill is required; for ordinary printing on good plate paper the price would be 10s. As already remarked, the majority of the earlier wood cuts and engravings are reproductions of line drawings, so that although we may admire and often marvel at the technical ability of the engraver, the credit for what artistic merit such illustrations may possess must, in the majority of cases, go to the draughtsman.
    keywords: block; colour; drawing; fig; gelatine; half; illustration; ink; line; means; negative; order; paper; plate; printing; process; reproduction; surface; tone; use; white; wood; work
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        item: #4 of 4
          id: 36751
      author: Kirkbride, Joseph
       title: Engraving for Illustration: Historical and Practical Notes
        date: None
       words: 14168
      flesch: 55
     summary: It was to some extent a purely commercial enterprise, the success of which was assured by an ever increasing interest in pictorial art. His drawing is not intended as a permanent form of pictorial art, but as a suggestive sketch, which, while perfectly intelligible to the engraver, will be free from such intricacies in its composition as might interfere with its effective interpretation.
    keywords: art; artist; character; engraver; engraving; expression; illustration; lines; metal; pictures; power; process; reproduction; tone; value; wood; wood engraving; work
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