Pietro Arentino, Line engraving. Source: Wiki Commons
“The art of pure line engraving is dying out. We live at too fast a rate to allow for the preparation of such plates as our fathers appreciated. If a picture catches the public fancy, the public must have an etched or a photogravure copy of it within a month or two of its appearance. The days when engravers were wont to spend two or three years over a single place are for ever gone.” – Journal of the Institute of Jamaica, Volume 1, 1892
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