They were the patterns and idols of their country at home; they were the illustrators of its dignity abroad.
"Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists"
Washington Irving
As is the case with the more ambitious artists in oils of the same periods, wherever there was any demand for book-illustrators a local school with strongly marked characteristics at once appears.
"Fine Books"
Alfred W. Pollard
Vernacular books of every description had poured from the presses of Paris and Lyon, and many of them had been charmingly illustrated in a style worthy of the great French school of illustrators of manuscripts.
"Fine Books"
Alfred W. Pollard