Wood engraving, engraved by the Dalziels. 3 x 4 inches. Thomas Dalziel’s image for ‘Meg Blane,’ showing a fisherman toiling on the sea in Robert Buchanan’s North Coast, 1. (London: Routledge, 1868), 1.
This powerful, dramatic image encapsulates the vertiginous movement of the sea, as Dalziel overlays a series of diagonal and sinuous lines to create an effect of jolting unsteadiness.
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Bibliography
Buchanan, Robert. North Coast. London: Routledge, 1868.
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