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Fine prints (1897)

Wedmore, Frederick, Sir, 1844-1921 · London : G. Redway · leaf 151

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ofAlbert Diirer dominates. If our allegiance has wavered,if we have been led astray for a period, by Martin Schon-gauer himself, it may be, or by somebody less worthilyillustrious, we shall return, wearily wise, to the authorof the Melancliolia and the Nativity, of the Knight ofDeath and of Flie… … DURER : THE LITTLE MASTERS rest, and that it was theirs, pre-eminently, to express,in the greatest manner, the gi-eatest mind. One ofthese two artists, of course, is Rembrandt. And theother is Durer. Adam Rartsch, working at Vienna, in the beginningof this century, upon those monumental books of…

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