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HISTORY OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
.Riddell-Carre, combining the quarterings of the two families, was engraved from
a wax seal forwarded by Mr. Riddell Carre from Scotland.
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The portraits in this history were mostly engraved on steel by Messrs. F. T.
Stewart and J. A. J. Wilcox, of Boston, Mass., and are fine specimens of art as
well as excellent likenesses of the individuals. These have cost, the large-
sized heads, from seventy-five to one hundred dollars each, and were paid for
by the originals or their families. The group of seven heads of European mem-
bers of the family, was engraved at my own expense, and cost, with prints, one
hundred and eighty-seven dollars. The group engraved on steel, of seven Amer-
ican members of the Riddell and Riddle family, was subscribed for by the men
themselves or their relatives, but as two died before the plate was finished, I
have been obliged to pay nearly one hundred dollars on the same. The Ridlon
group, comprising seven heads, was paid for by individuals. Four of the litho-
graphic portraits were printed at my expense, and cost one hundred and twenty
dollars. The portraits of Bishop Ridley, the martyr, one on steel by John Sar-
tain, and one by the heliotype process, were made to my order, at a cost of one
hundred dollars. That of Mark Ridley, M. D., was lithographed from a copper-
plate print found in London, Eng.; and with the one of GlosterRidley, D. D., which
was also made from a copper-plate found on the title-page of a book of his poems,
were made to my order at an expense of fifty dollars.
The portraits now engraved, with those ordered for this book, including prints,
will cost rising two thousand dollars.
