pen-and-bistre

Updated: May 4, 2025

He found there that use of the pure line, about which he has since said so much, together with a thoughtfully devised scheme of light-and-shade in mezzotint, devoted to the treatment of landscape in the same spirit as that in which the Italian masters treated figure-subjects in their pen-and-bistre studies.

W. G. (William Gershom) Collingwood - The Life of John Ruskin