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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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y even quality running through the productions of Childs, Whitney, Herrick, Kin-nersley, Annin, Hayes, Richardson, Bookhout, the elder Bogert, Jocelyn, Bross, Bobbett, andEdmonds, whose names I find in the many childrens books published by the Society: theirwork all fine, careful, generally good, but timid, and very much dependent on the draughtsman;the general family likeness owing perhaps partly to that, partly also to imitation of the styleof engraving at that time in vogue in England. Some of this monotony, as well as of theimprovement, might be also due to the influence of Childs, who in 1850, on the death of R.Roberts, took charge of the engraving department of the Tract Society. I find it difficult,unhelped by names, to distinguish the work done for the Society; and, looking through theChilds Paper, begun under the same direction in 1852, I trace the same hands, the same generalability, the same characteristics, — except as regards fineness, the paper requiring a larger — I
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Engraved by Kinnersley. — Drawn by Herrick. From The Childs Paper, Published by the American Tract Society. 44 AMERICAN ART \ ■ - * can hardly say a bolder — treatment. I select, as favorable examples, with richer and bolderhandling than usual, two cuts (1852), Peace and War, by Whitney and Annin, — Annins I thinkthe better; and some birds by Childs and Kinnersley (1862), drawn by H. W. Herrick (designerand engraver), — feathery and with a good graver-drawn line, not so much like to Bewick as toPowis, a later English engraver. Childss, as will be seen, is the more refined; Kinnersleysfirmer, good solid work. Coming down to recent times, I may take a small cut by Hayes, fromthe Women of the Bible (American Tract Society, 1868), as specimen of the Societys best work.The later issues of the Tract Society are so mixed, from the constantly increasing use of trans-fers and electrotypes of foreign cuts, that, even if there were more to deserve notice in them, itwould be imp

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