A Retrospect.—While in this critical mood, it may be worth while noting that the sincere and painstaking work of the old-time engravers is deserving of some praise and an ever tolerant criticism. It manifests incongruities and exaggerated metaphors which are at times painfully unconventional or grotesque, yet they have a directness of representation which admits of no doubt as to their meaning, and bear few traces of a perfunctory art.
"Our arts are happy hits. We are like the musician on the lake whose melody is sweeter than he knows, or like a traveller surprised by a mountain echo whose trivial word returns to him in romantic thunders."—Emerson.
INDEX
- Ackland, Sir Thomas, [47].
- Analysis, [68].
- Ancient drawings, [1].
- Antiquity of engraving, [2].
- Apocalypsio sue Historia, [7].
- Art representative, [3].
- Artistic purpose, [68].
- Artistic restoration, [63].
- Arundel, Duke of, [41].
- Assyrian antiquities, [4].
- Audran family, [4].
- Baillie, Captain, [46].
- Baldine, Baccio, [20].
- Bewick, Thomas, [9], [67].
- Biblia Pauperum, [7].
- Block books, [6].
- Botticelli, Sandio, [20].
- Cave dwellings, [1].
- Caxton, William, [26].
- Character, building up of, [52].
- Chinese playing cards, [5].
- Clever contrasts, [53].
- Colour dissection, [64].
- Commercial advantages, [13].
- Comparisons, [12], [13].
- Composition, [52], [53].
- Concise expression, [52].
- Constructive elements, [51].
- Controlling influences, [68].
- Cousins, Samuel, [47].
- Criticism, appreciative, [66].
- Dallaway, [26].
- Dante, [20].
- Degradation of tone, [54].
- Details, combination of, [52].
- Du Maurier, [60].
- Durer, Albert, [8], [21], [24], [40].
- Dutch masters, [67].
- Educative principle, [67].
- Egyptian monuments, [4].
- Emerson, [1], [5], [69].
- Engravers, early, [20].
- Engravers, interpretation, [49].
- Engravers, task, [48].
- Engraving, English, [26].
- Etching, [38].
- Etching, Dutch records, [38], [39].
- Etching, a summary, [40].
- Etching, description, [39].
- Etching, a stenography, [40].
- Etching, pictorial and artistic value, [40].
- Etching, light and shade in, [41].
- Etchings, Hollar's, [41].
- Evolution theory, [2].
- Execution, [54].
- Expression, [53].
- Extraneous matter, [52].