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Identifier: americanartamer01mont (find matches)
Title: American art and American art collections; essays on artistic subjects
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Montgomery, Walter
Subjects: Art Artists Art
Publisher: Boston, E.W. Walker & co
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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t me customersoccasionally. He laid before me several of Bewicks works which I had never heard of before,and also showed me many other specimens of cuts done by English and old German artists.The cuts done in those days were few, the principal for toy-books and similar juvenile works,published by Samuel Wood, Mahlon Day, Solomon King, and other New York publishers.Now and then a frontispiece or a few cuts in the text of a book would be wanted; but mostof the work required was for labels for cotton goods, or soap-stamps, hand-bills, playing-cards,and such like. Books were not profusely illustrated as now, — what illustration was used wasgenerally copperplate; and the young engraver knew what it was to be out of work and attimes without a cent in his pocket. But he persevered. In 1831 he was able to make a voyageto England, probably incited to that by the coming to this country, in 1829, of Abraham J.Mason, an English wood-engraver, from whom he may have had introductions to Thompson,
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