BY BIRKET FOSTER. FROM “LONGFELLOW’S POEMS” (BELL).
Engraved on wood by H. Vizetelly.
BY BIRKET FOSTER. FROM “BELL’S SCHOOL READER.”
Wood-engraving unsigned.
Among the English engravers, outside of the large shops of Dalziel and Swain, there are only two names that stand out conspicuously: W. J. Linton and W. H. Hooper. The excellent work of the latter, unfortunately, has been overshadowed by that of Mr. Linton, who, however, cannot be considered his equal as an engraver.
BY BIRKET FOSTER. PROCESS BLOCK FROM AN ORIGINAL DRAWING ON THE WOOD BLOCK, NEVER ENGRAVED.
BY BIRKET FOSTER. FROM “GOLDSMITH’S POEMS” (BELL).
Engraved on wood by Dalziel.
In America F. O. C. Darley was certainly the first illustrator, while the French tradition was carried on for years in "Harper's Magazine" by C. E. Dœpler, who produced some very excellent little blocks. Harper's "Illuminated Bible," with more than fourteen hundred drawings by J. G. Chapman, engraved by J. A. Adams, was begun in 1837, and finished in 1843. But the greatest number of the better American drawings were either borrowed from English sources, or, as in the case of the American Tract Society, English artists, like Sir John Gilbert, were commissioned to make them. After the Civil War, the first man to appear prominently was Winslow Homer. Contemporary with him, and later, were John La Farge, Thomas and Peter Moran, Alfred Fredericks, W. L. Shepherd, and the older of the men working to-day. Among the caricaturists, Thomas Nast was preeminent.
