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How to appreciate prints (1922)

Weitenkampf, Frank, 1866-1962 · New York : C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 98

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the first look may cause astonishment, perhapssome dismay. This very earliest German work, ofthe middle of the fifteenth century, at first sight ap-pears puerile in the pitiful helplessness of its makers,fettered alike by limited draughtsmanship and thewant of acquaintance with this new medium,… … ST. JEROME IN HIS STUDY. By Albrecht DUrer. There is a remarkable charm in the treatment of this sunHt interior, with its suggestive details. LINE ENGRAVING 63 nestness sometimes grotesque, in the work of theseearly men, nameless, known to us only by designationsborrowed from some mark or initial…

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