DETAIL OF “THE DENTATUS” ENGRAVED ON WOOD BY HARVEY, AFTER HAYDON.
BY E. ISABEY. FROM “PAUL AND VIRGINIA.”
Engraved by Slader.
CHAPTER III.
FRENCH ILLUSTRATION.
The nearer we approach our own time, the more difficult it becomes to write of illustration. For, although it is the duty of an editor, and even of an artist, to note all that is going on around him, at the present time this is almost impossible, so great is the output from the press, so varying are the fortunes of many artists. The man who, one day, promises to revolutionize all illustration, the next, disappears, or, worse still, becomes absolutely common-place. And process supersedes process with a rapidity that is perfectly bewildering.
