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not venture to use a colour freely till you feel its value
for expression.
As illustrations of the happy effect of the neutral style
of tinting, even for finished, landscapes, I may mention the
free use now made of it in printing in colours, especially
in illustrating musical publications, where three or four
tints afford ample scope for an effective picture. Most
of these are executed in lithography, but the illustrations
of a book called " A Woman's Journey round the World,"
printed on the same principle from wood blocks, deserves
notice on account of the great softness communicated by
this method to the comparatively harsh and untractable
severity of wood engraving. One of the best examples,
however, for our purpose is a lithographic drawing of the
Cove of Cork, printed in three neutral tints, brown, brownish
yellow, and grey, and the outline and shadow etched up by
a fourth, black. A description of the treatment may be
useful as an illustration of the system.
At the upper part of the picture the sky is clear, and
gradually warms towards the horizon, which is closed by
distant hills. The sun, within an hour or so of setting, is
near the centre, flanked by clouds, and throws its rays
across the still waters of the intervening harbour, up to
the foreground, which consists of the open slope of a
hill overlooking the water and also an esplanade below.
The harbour is full of vessels of different sizes, some of
the sails of which catch a light from the opposite luminary.
On the left, and in middle distance, is the town, which
from the height of the foreground displays lines of roofs;
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not venture to use a colour freely till you feel its value
for expression.
As illustrations of the happy effect of the neutral style
of tinting, even for finished, landscapes, I may mention the
free use now made of it in printing in colours, especially
in illustrating musical publications, where three or four
tints afford ample scope for an effective picture. Most
of these are executed in lithography, but the illustrations
of a book called " A Woman's Journey round the World,"
printed on the same principle from wood blocks, deserves
notice on account of the great softness communicated by
this method to the comparatively harsh and untractable
severity of wood engraving. One of the best examples,
however, for our purpose is a lithographic drawing of the
Cove of Cork, printed in three neutral tints, brown, brownish
yellow, and grey, and the outline and shadow etched up by
a fourth, black. A description of the treatment may be
useful as an illustration of the system.
At the upper part of the picture the sky is clear, and
gradually warms towards the horizon, which is closed by
distant hills. The sun, within an hour or so of setting, is
near the centre, flanked by clouds, and throws its rays
across the still waters of the intervening harbour, up to
the foreground, which consists of the open slope of a
hill overlooking the water and also an esplanade below.
The harbour is full of vessels of different sizes, some of
the sails of which catch a light from the opposite luminary.
On the left, and in middle distance, is the town, which
from the height of the foreground displays lines of roofs;
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