tainly failed to understand both Jackson's work and the period in which it was 

 done. They comment: 



Jackson's bold claims to originality and merit are scarcely borne out by any- 

 thing he is known to have achieved. That he had a vogue, however, seems certain, 

 for apart from his "Essay" he has come down to us as a historical figure. To mod- 

 ern tastes in art many of his productions seem almost monstrous, and yet they were 

 to some extent the expression of the dme-spirit in which they were born. 



Tostscript 



WHILE Jackson had an influence on a small coterie, it did not prolong the life of 

 the color woodcut. In Europe the medium did not survive his disappearance in 1755 ; 

 no doubt it seemed to later artists intractable and lacking in nuance. The black-and- 

 white woodcut, moreover, went into further decline and was almost entirely dis- 

 regarded except for the rudest sort of work. Almost a century and a half were to 

 pass before Gauguin and Munch swept aside old taboos and found exciting new 

 possibilities for color in the woodcut process. 



The lack of interest in the color woodcut was also the result of new techniques 

 in the copper-plate media, techniques that could be adapted to color printing. In 

 1756 J. C. Francois introduced the crayon manner, an etching process that could 

 imitate the eflfects of chalk and crayon drawings. During the following decades 

 numerous technical variations were developed, the most popular being the pastel 

 manner, the stipple, and the aquatint. 



Of these methods only aquatint survived after early years of the 19th century. 

 It was less limited than its companion processes and had wide application in ren- 

 dering the effect of water-color wash. But color work in this medium, however 

 attractive to a public that appreciated dehcacy and charm, did not have mass ap- 

 peal. The new audience created by the advancing Industrial Revolution wanted 

 printed pictures of a less subtle type; they preferred imitations of sentimental, 



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