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Title: Engraving for Illustration
Historical and Practical Notes
Author: Joseph Kirkbride
Release Date: July 17, 2011 [EBook #36751]
Language: English
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ENGRAVING FOR ILLUSTRATION
Reproduction by R. J. EVERETT & SONS' INK-PHOTO
Process
FRONTISPIECE. ENGRAVING FOR ILLUSTRATION.
ENGRAVING FOR ILLUSTRATION
Historical and Practical Notes
BY
JOSEPH KIRKBRIDE
WITH TWO PLATES BY INK PHOTO PROCESS
AND SIX ILLUSTRATIONS
LONDON
SCOTT, GREENWOOD & CO.
10 LUDGATE HILL, E.C.
NEW YORK
D. VAN NOSTRAND CO.
23 MURRAY STREET
1903
[All Rights remain with Scott, Greenwood & Co.]
PREFACE
A philosopher and writer has declared that in our fine arts, not imitation, but creation, is the aim.
It is to emphasise a distinction between an imitative and a creative art that the following chapters are offered.
Engraving for Illustration
is pre-eminently a creative art by which the work of the artist is translated, in order to render the effect of his design in such a form as will admit of rapid and effective reproduction.
It is, moreover, a popular art with a well-defined educative principle underlying the numerous phases of its manifestation; while, at the same time, its historical and general interest will commend this brief record of its progress and influence to many who are lovers of art for art's sake.
J. K.
London June 1903.
ENGRAVING FOR ILLUSTRATION
CHAPTER I
ITS INCEPTION—A THEORY OF EVOLUTION—A DISTINCT PROGRESS
In proportion to his force the artist will find in his work an outlet for his proper character.
—Emerson.
Its Inception.—It was the dawn of a new sense when primitive man first ornamented his weapons, utensils, and the walls of his cave dwellings with incised drawings,—pictorial representations which enabled him to record events or suggest and illustrate thoughts and ideas when his somewhat limited vocabulary failed him.
It was a severely utilitarian epoch of the world's history, and the crude yet intensely realistic manifestations of man's artistic desires were the more remarkable that they were wholly dependent upon stern necessity for their realisation. Childlike in their simplicity, yet both graphic and vigorous in expression, these ancient drawings bear testimony to the intense desire of primeval man for some suitable and satisfying form of pictorial expression. Such incised drawings were undoubtedly the earliest forms, which the mind of man suggested and his skill attained, of conveying information and displaying pictorial or ornamental art. They were but crude conceptions of the untutored art of a savage race, yet, with a characteristic quaintness of expression, they abundantly prove the existence of an innate, imitative, and artistic faculty, inspired by an insatiable craving for illustrative delineation.
A Theory of Evolution.—The antiquity of the engraver's art, then, is exceedingly remote, and its earliest records display frequent evidences of manipulative skill and artistic perception—evidences which are still more convincing when the environment and scanty resources of its exponents are fully appreciated. It was a most unique phase of that process of evolution whereby the social education of the human race was advanced, and through countless ages it has indicated the same onward roll of progressive intelligence.
Responsive to the ever-changing conditions of life, the necessities of mankind were constantly increasing. His higher intelligence also created a greater diversity of interests, and consequently demanded a fuller and more expressive vehicle of communication for his thoughts. No longer content with what was only needful for the maintenance of social or commercial