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 78
experience that hisplates, when too delicately executed, could yield only a 58 GERMAN ENGRAVING TO 1528 moderate number of good impressions. About 1505 hemade a change in his technique, and now worked on thecopper with deeply cut, regular lines, giving it greaterpower of resistance against the… … 1 1!^ 29 AlbiLLlit I>urti riiL \ IIgin with the Peai (dctailj effect, which, to take an instance, is particularly noticeablein The Virgin with the Pear (fig. 29) of 1511. Diirer couldnot get away from the fact that here lay one of the pitfallsof the engravers art, and with tact and skill he…
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