![]() “I could never discover,” says Bewick, “any additional beauty or color that the cross-strokes gave to the impression beyond the effect produced by plain parallel lines. White line was a new mechanical mode of obtaining color. ![]() This change was brought about by the invention of white line, as it is called, which was first used by Bewick. In the modern art the engraver holds a more prominent position, because he is no longer restricted to a servile following of the designer’s work, line for line, but has an opportunity to show his own artistic powers. The history of the art in the older time is concerned mainly with the designer and the ideas which he endeavored to convey, and only slightly with the engraver whom he employed for the mechanical work of cutting the block. He is called, not without justice, the father of the true art of engraving in wood. ![]() 60.-From the "Comedia di Danthe." Venice, 1536.HE revival of the art began in England, in the workshop of Thomas Bewick (1753–1828). ![]()
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