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Great as we think our advancement in the arts has been, -- the mechanical part of them, at least, -- all the efforts of the lithographer, the wood-cutter, and even the line-engraver, to reproduce the spirit or the very lines of this work, have been but partially successful.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 17, March, 1859 Various
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Mr. Robinson, the line-engraver, gave me a good lesson on this subject.
Philip Gilbert Hamerton Hamerton, Philip G 1896
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Robinson, the eminent line-engraver, strongly urged me to put myself under Leslie's direction, and this, I believe, was the Academician's kind, indirect way of offering it.
Philip Gilbert Hamerton Hamerton, Philip G 1896
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The art reminds us of the patient labour of a line-engraver, who works for days at making out one little bit of minute stippling and cross-hatching.
Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) Leslie Stephen 1868
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Mr. Robinson, the line-engraver, gave me a good lesson on this subject.
Philip Gilbert Hamerton An Autobiography, 1834-1858, and a Memoir by His Wife, 1858-1894 Eug��nie Hamerton 1864
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Robinson, the eminent line-engraver, strongly urged me to put myself under Leslie's direction, and this, I believe, was the Academician's kind, indirect way of offering it.
Philip Gilbert Hamerton An Autobiography, 1834-1858, and a Memoir by His Wife, 1858-1894 Eug��nie Hamerton 1864
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