Word: boxwoods
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...artist's greatest obstacle was his own newspaper. The arrival of his sketches set in motion an elaborate process by which they were converted into print. Copying the drawing-in reverse-on a segmented boxwood block, separately engraving its various pieces-anywhere from 6 to 36-reassembling them and electrotyping a metal printing plate, took at least two weeks and usually more. By the time Leslie's received Henri Lovie's moving depiction of the death of Brigadier General Nathaniel S. Lyon, its home artists had already twice rendered the general's death; Lovie...