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Title: Engraving and etching : a handbook for the use of students and print collectors
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Lippmann, Friedrich, 1839-1903 Lehrs, Max, 1855-1938 Hardie, Martin, 1875-1952
Subjects: Engraving -- History Etching -- History
Publisher: New York : C. Scribner's Sons
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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s individual fancy in the representationof figures. Twice he treats with a note of intense tragedy thetheme of Death, in one plate showing Death laying awarning hand on the shoulder of a gaily clad young man(fig. 18), in another giving the Legend of the three Deadand three Live Kings. Next to him, though at a con-siderable distance, if judged by the standard of artisticmerit, stands the above-mentioned Master 1>P< 3, who hasevidently copied a series of lost originals by him, aswas also done by Wenzel von Olmiitz and Israel vonMeckenen. Along with this group must also be placed an artistby whom we have four noteworthy engraved portraits,two signed in the lower margin V7^1B vigorous incomposition, clever in drawing, clear and firm in engrav-ing. Their unknown designer, who must have been nomean artist, belongs to the Suabian School and in anycase is of the fifteenth century. His technique is akin tothat of Schongaucr, but is less refined and regular. In EARLY ENGRAVED PORTRAITS. n
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Fig. 19. Master with the Signature N^^ P : Portrait of a Woman, the domain of German art these plates are the earliestsuccessful attempt at producing portraits from the life bymeans of engraving. The improvements in the technique of engravingeffected by the Master E. S. and by Schongauer areessentially the foundation on which rests the work of

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