Thus, he loved to make his drawings on old rough paper, which by its grain gave a wonderfully charming but irreproducible quality to his ragged lines, and which by stains of age would impart effects wholly foreign to the art of the wood-cutter.
"The History of "Punch""
M. H. Spielmann
Nor is this all;-I have the every sensation of the very moment,-the vegetal odors, the mighty tropic light, the wamrth, the intensity of irreproducible color....
"Two Years in the French West Indies"
Lafcadio Hearn