A study of the artist's way of working in the various handicrafts and arts of design (1905)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Dodd, Mead and company · leaf 88
ENGRAVING work. Fig. 140 shows a metal plate in which are engraved some stems and flowers of grass, with a butterfly ; and it is noticeable how the long leaves seem to show alternately their under and upper surfaces by mere variations in the width of the incised line. This little bit of … is nearly rectangu- Fig. 140. Engraved plaque, Japanese lar, both sides of the bronze, set in a half-ball of ivory to serve as a netsuke depression being cut straight down and the shaving taken out between them : while in others the section is that of a V of which one side slopes more than the…
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