I too am enjoying these examples of the early American engravers. Just to re-calibrate on Loy dogs and his scroll--these from a signed gun.
And this from a grade 3 that I attribute to him that illustrates the "quotation marks" he used to finish the scroll moving into a plain area.
I don't get the sense that the dogs have a necessarily short snout.
There is also a contemporary Ithaca engraver with Loy--a man by the name of Simeon Rogers. Rogers came from Meriden with Loy and they roomed together. They must have been very close friends as Rogers was Loy's executor of his estate. I have never seen a documented work by Rogers BUT they very well could have similar styles as they both trained under that master Parker engraver Harry Gough.
The dog photos have a lot of image structure and enlarge nicely should you care to do that.
Last edited by Walter C. Snyder; 09/12/15 07:50 PM.
