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A practical manual of wood engraving : with a brief account of the history of the art (1886)

Brown, William Norman · London : C. Lockwood and Co. · leaf 74

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WOOD ENGRAVING. 6o wood-engraver’s art, viz. portraiture. The term ‘‘cross-hatching” means the crossing of the lines in various directions, and to reproduce which requires very careful manipulation, the cuts being made between the lines by a lozenge- … Fig. 33. — Trunk and Foliage Study. shaped graver, and the white wood is removed by the tool being inserted twice at opposite angles. This is the simplest form, but in elaborate plates it is often seen in very compli- cated styles. It is a mode of wood engraving that I do not recommend generally,…

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