ll the close of the artists life.His monogram, which up till about 1531 was composedof the initials H S P, now becomes H S B. Ninety-twoprints have the first, about two hundred the second signa-ture. The quick destruction to which his subtly engravedplates were liable in printing Beham strove to… … with such a happy result that impressions from his re-workedplates frequently show a delicacy of work only slightlyinferior to that of the original proofs. At times he copiedand repeated his own engravings, linefor line, with such astonishing fidelitythat prints from the two different platesare…
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