# Modern Illustration

Author: Pennell, Joseph, 1857-1926

Genre: Category: Art

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/40322

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Modern+Illustration+Pennell&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

Nowhere were the conditions of illustration more deplorable than in England when Bewick, and Stothard, and Blake appeared upon the scene. There was a decided revolution when Gay's "Fables," the "General History of Quadrupeds," "British Land and Water Birds," all illustrated by Bewick's wood-engravings, were issued. Bewick, as has been said before, and cannot be repeated too often, was an artist who happened to engrave his designs on wood, instead of drawing them on paper or painting them on canvas; he was not a mere wood-engraver, interpreting other men's work which he only half understood or appreciated; and this is a distinction to be borne in mind. Bewick, virtually, did for himself wh...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER V.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/modern-illustration-40322/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/modern-illustration-40322/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/modern-illustration-40322/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/modern-illustration-40322/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/modern-illustration-40322/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/modern-illustration-40322/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/modern-illustration-40322/chapters/1/index.md)