Along with Vierge and Coll, there was another who's style influenced the pen and ink artists over the coming years - Franklin Booth... his works in many ways bridge the times between the woodblock cutting process and the photoengraving by having a style which reminds one of the former yet was used by the latter...
Note the fullness of his renderings, and how he manipulated the sky, teasing so much in cloud forms yet keeping them in the background as he emphasized the elements of the foreground...
While highly stylized in penwork, his renderings were as much paintings as any done in this medium, with a wealth of varieties and expressionistic details that lent much to drawing in the viewers to what he showed...
His range of subject matter varied widely...
Yet he was adept at all of them....
Even the occasional vignette....
All his works are well worth studying - for form, function, use of negative, impressions of detail, and sense of drama whatever the subject matter...
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