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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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52 GERMAN ENGRAVING TO 1528 heavy, the drawing hard and uncertain. These printsdo not yet bear Diirers mark, which consisted originallyof a separate A and D, later was formed JR , andfinally, about 1497, took the shade of the world-famousTT. Durer at first placed his signature, like theGerman masters of the fifteenth century, on the middleof the lower margin of his picture; later, like the
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Fig. 27. AlbiLcht Diircr : Ihc Holy Family with the Grasshopper (detail). Italians, set it frequently on a tablet, or drew it in per-spective on the ground, a stone, or elsewhere. It wasafter 1503 that Diirer first began to date his plates withfrequency. During the last ten years of the fifteenth century and inthe years immediately following 1500, Diirer was an activeworker with the burin, and in the prints of this period canbe traced clearly the formation of his art and of his tech-nique. The Holy Family with the Grasshopper (fig. 27), ALBRECHT DURER 53 with its imperfect drawing and harsh, uncertain engraving,may be placed about 1494 or 1495. Following this, butwith more finish in the work, come the Seven Soldiers and the Turk on Horseback ; and finally, in 1497, adistinct advance is marked by the Four Witches, whosefigures show that Diirer, even at this period, departingfrom the practice of his German contemporaries, musthave made studies from the nude. At the same timehe was now s

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