PREFACE

List of Illvstrations.

INTRODUCTORY.

THE RISE OF AN ART.

COMPARATIVE PROCESSES.

PAPER.

PENS.

INKS.

THE MAKING OF A PEN-DRAWING.

WASH DRAWINGS.

STYLES AND MANNER.

PAINTERS' PEN-DRAWINGS.

A · PRACTICAL · HANDBOOK · OF ·
DRAWING FOR MODERN METHODS
· OF · REPRODVCTION

BY

CHARLES G. HARPER,

AUTHOR OF “ENGLISH PEN ARTISTS OF TO-DAY.”

Illustrated with Drawings by several Hands, and with Sketches
by the Author showing Comparative Results obtained by the
several Methods of Reproduction now in Use.

LONDON: CHAPMAN & HALL, Ld.

1894.

Dear Mr. Morley,

It is with a peculiar satisfaction that I inscribe this book to yourself, for to you more than to any other occupant of an editorial chair is due the position held by “process” in illustrating the hazards and happenings of each succeeding week.

Time was when the “Pall Mall Budget,” with a daring originality never to be forgotten, illustrated the news with diagrams fashioned heroically from the somewhat limited armoury of the compositor. Nor I nor my contemporaries, I think, have forgotten those weapons of offence—the brass rules, hyphens, asterisks, daggers, braces, and other common objects of the type-case—with which the Northumberland Street printers set forth the details of a procession, or the configuration of a country. There was in those days a world of meaning—apart from libellous innuendo—in a row of asterisks; for did they not signify a chain of mountains? And what Old Man Eloquent was ever so vividly convincing as those serpentine brass rules that served as the accepted hieroglyphics for rivers on type-set maps?

These were the beginnings of illustration in the “Pall Mall Budget” when you first filled the editorial chair. The leaps and bounds by which you came abreast of (and, indeed, overlook) the other purveyors of illustrated news, hot and hot, I need not recount, nor is there occasion here to allude to the events which led to what some alliterative journalist has styled the Battle of the Budgets. Only this: that if others have reaped where you have sown, why! ’twas ever thus.

For the rest, I must needs apologize to you for a breach of an etiquette which demands that permission be first had and obtained before a Dedication may be printed. To print an unauthorized tribute to a private individual is wrong: when (as in the present case) an Editor is concerned I am not sure that the wrong-doing halts anything before lÈse majestÉ.

Yours very truly, 
CHARLES G. HARPER.

London,
May, 1894.