Identifier: shorthistoryofen00hinduoft (find matches)
Title: A short history of engraving (and) etching : for the use of collectors and students; with full bibliography, classified list and index of engravers
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Hind, Arthur Mayger, 1880-1957
Subjects: Engravers Engraving Etchers Etching
Publisher: London : A. Constable
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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Fig. 2.—The Master of the Year 1446. Christ crowned with Thorns. are in Paris or Dresden) present an example of the branch ofactivity which, alongside with the making of small devotional-prints,formed one of the chief uses to which early wood-cutting andengraving were applied (see Fig. 3). As a draughtsman he possessesan incisive and individual manner, and, in his representations ofanimals, he is no unworthy contemporary of Pisanello. The flat anddecorative convention of his drawing of bird and beast shows acertain kinship with the genius of Japanese art. Among the craftsmen who show the clearest evidence of hisinfluence is the Master of the Year 1446, which gives consider- 2 2 THE EARLIEST ENGRAVERS able weight to the assumption that the Master of the Playing Cards
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Fig. 3.—The Master of the Playing Cards. C3-clamen Queen. was working some years before this date. With less artistic powerand a more timid execution, the same scheme of parallel shading is MASTER OF THE GARDENS OF LOVE 23 followed, though varied with a more liberal admixture of shortstrokes and flicks. Another engraver, who emanates from the same school—of small The Master oforiginal power, but of some interest as a copyist on account of com- ^^ ^^^^ ^464-positions preserved us by his plagiarisms—is the Master of theYear 1464 (so called from the date which appears on the first letterof a grotesque alphabet which he copied from a wood-cut series nowin Basle). From the recurrence of ribbon scrolls with inscriptionson his prints, he also goes by the name of the Master of theBanderoles. In certain instances, e.g. the Alphabet, and a Fight forthe Hose (Munich), the latter from a print of the Finiguerra School(Berlin),^ the sources of his plagiarisms have been idetitified. Others,lik

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