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The masters and master-pieces of engraving (1894)

Chapin, Willis O · New York: Harper & Bros. · leaf 123

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r engraved at Antwerp many finesubjects after Rubens, of which mention has already been made.In the first half of the eighteenth century we have Jean Papil-lon, a French wood-engraver of considerable ability, but best 86 THE MASTERS AND MASTERPIECES OF ENGRAVING known as the author of an alleged… … HEAD-PIECE, BY HANS SEBALD BEHAM shone with such splendor in the days of Diirer and Holbein,and of the famous printers of Nuremberg and Lyons, had de-clined until but little of its former glory remained. Of all the arts of the German Renaissance, wood-engravinghas most faithfully reflected the…

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