The character of the design is very easily seen; the lines are simple, often graceful and well-arranged; there is but little attempt at marking shadows; there is less stiffness in the forms, and the draperies follow the lines of the forms better than in either earlier or later work of a similar kind, and there is also much less unconscious caricature and grimace.
— from A History of Wood-Engraving by George Edward Woodberry

If they fail in one district or province, the deficiency is very easily supplied to people who have equivalents to give for the produce of another.
— from The White Slaves of England by John C. Cobden