Engraving and etching : a handbook for the use of students and print collectors (1907)
Lippmann, Friedrich, 1839-1903, Lehrs, Max, 1855-1938, Hardie, Martin, 1875-1952 · New York : C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 72
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… … 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…
Engraving -- History · Etching -- History
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