Identifier: ariadneflorentin1892rusk (find matches)
Title: Ariadne florentina; six lectures on wood and metal engraving, with appendix; given before the University of Oxford in Michaelmas term, 1872.
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 Norton, Charles Eliot, 1827-1908, author of introduction, etc
Subjects: Engraving Wood-engraving
Publisher: New York : Charles E. Merrill & Co.
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
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bings Celestial and Terrestrial,apparent to the English. Mmd WOOD ENGRAVING. lOI by many, than are in the object. But is thisnecessarily a disadvantage ? Absolutely, an immense disadvantage,—awoodcut never can be so beautiful or good athing as a painting, or hne engraving. But inits own separate and useful way, an excellentthing, because, practised rightly, it exercises inthe artist, and summons in you, the habit ofabstraction; that is to say, of deciding whatare the essential points in the things you see,and seizing these ; a habit entirely necessaryto strong humanity ; and so natural to allhumanity, that it leads, in its indolent and un-disciplined states, to all the vulgar amateursliking of sketches better than pictures. Thesketch seems to put the thing for him into aconcentrated and exciting form. 104. Observe, therefore, to guard you fromthis error, that a bad sketch is good for nothing ;and that nobody can make a good sketch unlessthey generally are trying to finish with extre

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