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Excerpt from French Engravers and Draughtsmen: Of the Xviiith Century With this volume ends the series in which I have attempted to sketch the leading features of French Art in the eighteenth century and to trace the action of those social laws under the pressure of which the arts take shape just as dogma crystallizes under the influence of preceding speculation. The difficulties of selection and omission have been great, and every day I have received fresh suggestions as to the way in which I ought to have dealt with my subject. For my purpose it seemed better not to venture on a systematic history but to follow lines on which I have previously found myself able to interest my readers. I therefore have throughout selected in each division one or two artists who seemed to represent special tendencies connected with the life of the day and whose work, still existing, could be treated in some detail. In respect to the illustrations of these final pages, special difficulties, not unforeseen, have had to be encountered. Architecture, Painting, or Sculpture can secure better representation in a volume of this size than can be obtained for the art of Engraving. The reproduction of an engraving, even by a costly process in skilled hands, is always unsatisfactory unless carried out on the same scale as the original. Of a necessity the texture of the execution is confused by reduction: the lines, crosslines, hatchings and stipplings run together and are choked in each other so that what should be a luminous expression of form becomes a meaningless pond of ink. As far as possible, therefore, examples have been selected that could be given of their full size. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.