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plished in two -ways — we considered, on reflection, 

 that it would be doing fuller justice to his work to 

 bringinthebest aidsof the artist and wood engraver, 

 by supplying — whilst producing the actual subjects 

 furnished by Gilpin, so characteristic of the spirit 

 and of the charm of his drawings in general — the 

 minutiae of modern artistic work, and the best style 

 of modern wood engraving. It has, therefore, been 

 our most anxious care to see, that in all the details 

 of Gilpin's pictures, the artist should supply what 

 their originator had omitted from his sketches — 

 the filling in of the landscape foregrounds — the 

 proper drawing of the trees and due attention to 

 perspective, to the effects of light and shade, and to 

 the incidental and suggestive beauty added to the 

 scenes by the presence of clouds in the sky — the 

 substitution, in short, of the most skilful artistic 

 work o£ the present day for the conventional 

 drawing and engraving of the eighteenth century. 

 Artist and engraver entered into the work con 

 amore, and they have done their utmost to carry 

 out our suggestions and wishes to the letter. We 

 trust that the result may be considered successful. 

 "With the exception of the ten figures, illustrating 



