Identifier: engravingetching00lipp (find matches)
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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Haar-lem) ranks among the most distinguished engravers ofthe seventeenth century. His work with the burin is freefrom all conventionality in the arrangement of lines, andhe unites etching and line-engraving with a soft andharmonious effect, particularly in his own peculiar treat-ment of flesh and hair. Of Visschers prints, amountingto about two hundred in all, the best are his fine andspirited portraits of his contemporaries, particularly re-markable being that of the poet Vondel, and that knownas The Three Beards (de Bouma, de Ryck, and Scriverius).Visscher was also a most skilful interpreter of the paintingsof Ostade and Brouwer, in whose style he produced some ex-tremely happy compositions of his own, such as his WomanBaking, The Ratcatcher (fig, 69), and other prints. In the same spirit as Visscher, and with fine pictorialfeeling, worked Jonas Suyderhoef (perhaps a pupil ofSouterman), whose dated plates show that he was engravingin Holland from 1641 to 1669. He used his burin with
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Fig. Go, Coi ii£liui \isscher : The Ratcatcher i^detail_). 154 ENGRAVING IN THE LOW COUNTRIES absolutely unrestrained freedom, almost like an etching-needle, and in his bold and vicjorous engravincrs after the

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