The Art of Illustration / 2nd ed.

by Henry Blackburn

VIEW ABOVE BLANKENBERG, HARZ MOUNTAINS.

It should be mentioned that three photographic prints joined together would hardly have given the picture, owing to the vast extent of this inland view, and the varying atmospheric effects.

The last instance I can give here is an engraving from Cassell’s Popular Educator, where a picture is used to demonstrate the curvature of the world’s surface; thus imprinting, for once, and for always, on the young reader’s mind a fact which words fail to describe adequately.

THE CURVATURE OF THE WORLDS SURFACE.

This is “The Art of Illustration” in the true sense of the word.

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[3] The quotations are from a paper by the present writer, read before the Society of Arts in March, 1875.

[4] This system of reporting rifle contests is now almost universal in England.