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    t Pen Drawing : and Pen Draughtsmen , their Work and their Methods , by Joseph Pennell . In art circles it has long been a matter of gossip that Mr . Pennell was engaged in

    ! the disappoint preparation , even of in this a j , - \

    1 which volume have , and been contains formed no II I ft

    book ; and now that it has appeared it will not literary or artistic sense , the high expectations less concerning than one it . hundred It proves and to be fifty a superb -eight illustrations royal quarto twelve of which are hotogravure tu lates icvv / executed ,

    b y Dujardin v cr - " ^ vx niuvxA , Am and . «? - p ^ Durand / u yvvgi w , " A . and p ^ s- C ^ o . Dawson ^ vvvubCU , and others . Many of the other pictures in this

    beautiful book are printed from relief blocks of various various Vinfia kinds . a a number number of of them them occupy occubv full lull pages nacrpst

    and the rest , are interwoven with the text . The , edition is limited to a thousand copies ; America - _* - ^^~^

    has - ^_~ — _~ — — taken — — — — five ~— - _ — — hundred — — — — — — of — - ^^ - them - — , and ^_ the rest are — m on sale in this country . Lovers of art in general ,

    and students and connoisseurs in particular , will find this book to be of great and permanent interest ; it is neither more nor less than a

    ^ critical , study of the theory and practice of penand-ink drawing by one of the most accomplished

    and graceful exponents of the art . Mrr Pennell describes the characteristics of pen draughtsmen j of SpainItalyGermanyFranceEnglandand j

    the United , States , and he , illustrates , his criticisms , with specimens of , the work of a number of the ' most distinguished mastersof this branch of art

    in Europe . Mr . Hamerton has , termed pen drawing a % M * simp UU 11 U 1 le W process Mr VW ^>»» , , ' and UUXU this UA . M . J . IJ leads J . VW >^* . » Mr . 4 . T-M . JL . Penn JL VJlJtVXX ell to l / V

    warn beginners not to cherish the delusion that a , simple process means an easy and trifling form of

    art ; ' to the incipient artist encouraged by the financial success of pen-drawing hacks I would only say—unless — you feel that pen drawing is

    something , / »/ - to be - 01 reverenced , something j _ to be studied , something to be loved , something to be

    wondered the pen , ~ and at , that that you you are must the put motive all your power individu behind - ality and character in your work—you will never

    become a pen-draughtsman . ' Everybod ** y who is at all acquainted with Mr . Pennell will not be in the

    least degree surprised to learn that there is plenty of 'individuality and character : ' in this elaborate ,

    fearless , in and the independent book which treatise are almost . There certain are to passages evoke hostile criticismbut this we imagine is

    precisely what Mr . Pennell , , in the interests of the — " — — —^—~ ¦ art ^^ r ¦ - ^ - ^^ ¦ of " " which ^ W ^ B ^ ^^ B ^^ V ^ . ^ ^^^^^^ he ^^^ ^^ ^ . ^^ ^ is ^^ *~ ^ f so V ^ fe ^ ^^^ distinguished ^^^^^ V ^^> ^ ' ^^^ ^^* ^> V ^ HH > BBB W > K ^^^^^ ^^^ ^^^^ ^^^ ^^^ ^^^ ¦ ^^ a ^^ ^^ repre 4 ^^ B ^^ P V" ^ -

    sentative merely an , important desires to book bring ; we about venture . This to think is not it

    will be anepoch-making one in the branch of art with which it is concerned .

    . ( For tender and realistic studies of fiSj & C X ^ / fiyY child-life , Mrs . Moles worth is perhaps

    + wmuN ? rfy £ iu ^ f & ^^ l ^ $ ' ^ T genuine or unrivalled - \ simpering ) ; h little er youngs men ter or s women are not , p but ert ^^ $ J ^^ $ ? L > of childrenartlessconfiding ,

    ' X /^ *^/ C /— » ' v /^ & f Molesworth and ful 1 ' wonder s new , b ook , mischief The , Rectory . Mrs . ws / Tr >& ? ^ LSZ >* -J Children Children , is ia a natural natural and and attractive attractive

    Y < - / S p ' ^ ' delineation pathetic insi , , marked ght into by keen the changeful and

    symg mooas irl , who ana makes for manners herself ot a child reputation -liie . The for heroine waywardness , Bridget , and Vane gets , is into an . im a pulsive good many lituc childish cnuaisn scrapes SCrai > es . which which are are described rieRnrihfirl with Wifh a humour Immrmr and n . nrf skill « lril ] wort xo-nri-. h hxr of nf the the * hand hand which wJifnli gave crave

    us trations trations pen-and neignten heighten -ink portraits , the the charm nhar of m * of of Carrots the thft book rmrklr , ' ' Herr .. Baby , ' and fc Little Peggy y . ' Walter Crane ' s

    illustwenty Mrs . and Henry thirty Fawcett brief biographical , in Some Eminen sketches t of Women lives which of Onr were Times marked , has t > written y great between achievements

    or goiaen aeeds . The idea of the book was suggested to J ^ lrs . Jb'awcett by the fact that

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    I * r 584 The Publishers' Circular Dec . 6 , 188 9 >¦ ^ ¦ ___

• Citation
  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Dec. 6, 1889, page 1584, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_06121889/page/50/