of these original drawings forms the 264 ENGRAVING IN GERMANY main part of Hollars work, along with his series ofnumerous costume plates and the well-known prints whichdepict fur, mussels, etc., with extraordinary observationof nature. Far inferior to this original work are Hollarsportraits and… … Fig. 119. Wenzel Hollar : Landscape (detail). the tone and character of the paintings of Elsheimer. Inthe style and quality of his work Hollar stands apart fromall the tendencies of his time, and seems like a belatedproduct of the sixteenth century. His work was donealmost entirely in foreign…
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