en, an extremely active engraver andgoldsmith, whose work amounts to over 570 plates, appearsto have worked at Bocholt at the end of the fifteenth century, 42 GERMAN ENGRAVING TO 1528 and to have died there in 1503. Israel appears as a mostprolific picture-maker, belonging in style to the… … Fig. 22. Israel von Meckenen : The Card-players (detail). possesses real power of observation combined with fresh-ness of humour, as is particularly proved by his various* Scenes of Domestic Life, his comic Family of Foxes,and similar engravings. As a rule, he copies otherartists—Schongauer, the…
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