and his facility: he became a remarkably rapid and skillful cutter. Jackson gath- 

 ered strength in Paris, but it was in Venice that he really came to maturity as an 

 artist. 



Tailpiece in Histoire generate de Languedoc, by Claude Vic and J. J. Vaissete, Paris, 

 1730, vol. I. Note the even tone and clean cutting compared with Papillon's 

 light-and-dark contrasts and dainty cutting. Actual size. 



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