 | Joseph Strutt - 1785 - 474 pagine
...clearnefs of the graver, were the great efientials of hiftorical " engraving, gave worth to his works by a bold mixture of free hatchings " and dots, placed together apparently without order, but with an inimitable " degree of tafte ; and has left to pofterity moft admirable examples of the " ftyle,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1812 - 536 pagine
...clearness of the graver, were the great essentials of historical engraving, gave worth to his works by a bold mixture of free hatchings and dots, placed together apparently without order, but with an inimitable degree of taste ; and has left to posterity most admirable examples of the style... | |
 | 1816 - 740 pagine
...clearnefs of the graver, were the great eiTentials of hiftorical engraving, gave worth to his works by a bold mixture of free hatchings and dots, placed together apparently without order, but with an inimitable degree of tafte ; and has left to poflerity moft admirab'e examples of the ftyle... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1812 - 544 pagine
...clearness of the graver, were the great essentials of historical engraving, gave worth to his works by a bold mixture of free hatchings and dots, placed together apparently without order, but with an inimitable degree of taste ; and has left to posterity most admirable examples of the style... | |
 | 1823 - 894 pagine
...clearness of the graver, were the great essentials of historical engraving, gave worth to his works by a bold mixture of free hatchings and dots, placed together apparently without order, but with an inimitable degree of taste ; and has left to posterity most admirable examples of the style... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 852 pagine
...clearness of the gravel, were the great essentials of historical engraving, gave worth to his works by a bold mixture of free hatchings and dots, placed together apparently without order, but with an inimitable degree of taste ; and has left to posterity most admirable examples of the style... | |
 | 1835 - 566 pagine
...the highest admiration, the skill, intelligence, and extraordinary facility exhibited by his burin throughout those immense and intricate compositions....transcribing. To feel the truth of this remark, it is only necessary to glance at the above-mentioned Battles of Alexander, after Le Brun; the Preservation of... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1866 - 552 pagine
...extraordinary facility exhibited by his burin throughout those immense aud intricate compositions. His style is composed of a bold mixture of free hatchings...reminded only of the master whom he is transcribing. In the above-mentioned Battles of Alexander, after Le Brun ; the Pre-ervatiou of tue young Pyrrhus,... | |
 | National cyclopaedia - 1879 - 702 pagine
...reputation perhaps rests | chiefly on the celebrated series of plates after Le Brun's Battles of Alexander. His style is composed of a bold mixture of free hatchings...contours, but the mind and feeling of the painter. AUDUBON, JOHN JAMES, the distinguished ornithologist, was born in 1780. He was the son of a French... | |
 | National cyclopaedia - 1884 - 642 pagine
...scries of plates after Lc Bran's Battles of Alexander. His style is composed of a bold mixture of fn« hatchings and dots, placed together apparently without...contours, but the mind and feeling of the painter. title of the " Birds of America." After his collection had multiplied upon his hands, he undertook,... | |
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This sublime artist," says the Abbe Fontenai, borrowing chiefly from M. Basan, " far from conceiving that a servile arrangement of strokes, and the too frequently cold and affected clearness of the graver, were the great essentials of historical engraving,... 