Mr. Emery Walker, of the firm of Walker and Boutall, who has had great experience in the reproduction of illustrations and designs from old books and manuscripts, will tell you that very often there is no reduction of the original; and he will show reproductions in photo-relief of engravings and drawings of the same size as the originals, the character of the paper, and the colour of the printing also, so closely imitated that experts can hardly distinguish one from the other. On the other hand, the value of reduction, for certain styles of drawing especially, can hardly be over-estimated. The last drawing was reduced to less than half the length of the original, and is, I think, one of the best results yet attained by the Dawson relief process.
Again, I say, “there is no rule about it.” In the course of years, and in the reduction to various scales of thousands of drawings by different artists, to print at the type press, my experience is that every drawing has its scale, to which it is best reduced.
In these pages will be found examples of drawings reduced to one-sixtieth the area of the original, whilst others have not been reduced at all.
No. X.
“Twins,” by Stanley Berkley.
Sketch in pen and ink (size 8¼ × 5½ in.) from Mr. Berkley’s picture in the Grosvenor Gallery in 1884.