Catalogue of a collection of engravings, etchings, and woodcuts (1879)
Fisher, Richard · [London? Printed by J. C. wilkins] · leaf 150
of the century the new art developed a perfectionef tf gatmeilt which, during the evolution of now nearly four hundredyears, has remained unrivalled. It is not merely their rarity, butthe high intrinsic merit of the engravings of these fifteenth-centurypainters which has invested them with their… … 124 The German School of Engraving. in 1452. Earlier attempts must necessarily have prepared the wayfor such skill of execution. The German prints, with attributed orgenuine dates prior to 1452, and for many years after, are crude indesign and finish ; there is, in fact, no specimen of either…
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