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176 THE HISTORY OF WOOD-ENGRAVING.
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much The in remed the hands y to this of the great children evil , as we o in the conv hands inced of , parents lies not and so
guardians , who ( unless there is an ample provision for the whole family ) ought to consider it quite as much their duty to apprentice
t ( of heir which daugh we ters believe at an wood early - age engraving to certain to be feminine one , and occupations one is their that
pays practice to t the o p skilled rovide re work gular woman work for an t excellent heir sons salary as soon ) as it the lads leave school .
There is a great demand for this kind of labour , and , as we have already said , it pays well . It is impossible to say how much might
be earned in one year , as that must depend upon individual industry and capacity . Redgrave says that a series of examples
engraved from drawings supplied by the masters of schools of art have been roducedand the illustrations for the catalogue of
Renaissance p casts successful , ly completed , by the class of engravers at Kensington . These we have seenand the latter are highly
creditableand form a series which it , is hoped will be extensively useful , and , tend to popularize the knowledge of ornamental
styles . These engravings were executed by the more advanced ilswho were paid for their labour ; and it is the intention of
the pup Committee , to place in their hands all the engraving required for the various handbooks;—but , beyond this , no paid work is found
for the pupils , who of course , when they have learned the profession accurately , must go forth , conquering and to conquer , acting on
business principles , acquiring business habits , and making business money Newspaper . _-. work pays the bestbut then it is attended with this
drawback , that often an order comes , in late at night which must be executed before morning ; but when the annual number of
illustrated books , together with the innumerable weekly and monthly publications which must pass through the engraver ' s hands , are
remembered , we confidently say that no one possessed of a moderate stock of atience and industry need ever despair of getting plenty
of work : p only let beginners remember this all-important fact , that in no one instance will work come to them ; in every case they
must seek for work—' they must stoop to conquer—at first condescending to work for the minor journals when they canwhere they
, can , and at what price the editor chooses to pay . Moreover , the work must be finished with the same care , and returned as
punctually at the appointed hour , as if the cut had been executed for Colnaghi , and the time had been named by Queen Victoria herself .
These hints being acted upon , the nucleus of a connexion is formed ; and unless there be some glaring fault or some gross negligence , the
path to competency , and often to affluence , is clear and open . In conclusion , we can only say that we know , by personal acwith
quaintance with the trade , editors , and others connected jour-
176 The History Of Wood-Engraving.
176 THE HISTORY OF WOOD-ENGRAVING .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), May 1, 1858, page 176, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01051858/page/32/
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