Legacy
Linton was a singularly gifted man, who, in the words of his wife, if he had not bitten the Dead Sea apple of impracticable politics, would have risen higher in the world of both art and letters. As an engraver on wood he reached the highest point of execution in his own line. He carried on the tradition of Bewick, fought for intelligent as against merely manipulative excellence in the use of the graver, and championed the use of the "white line" as well as of the black, believing with Ruskin that the former was the truer and more telling basis of aesthetic expression in the wood-block printed upon paper.
See WJ Linton, Memories; FG Kitton, article on "Eliza Lynn Linton" in English Illustrated Magazine (April 1891); GS Layard, Life of Mrs Lynn Linton (1901).
The standard author abbreviation Linton is used to indicate this individual as the author when citing a botanical name.Read more about this topic: William James Linton
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